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USB: fix testing the wrong variable in fs_create_by_name()

There is a typo here.  We should be testing "*dentry" which was just
assigned instead of "dentry".  This could result in dereferencing an
ERR_PTR inside either usbfs_mkdir() or usbfs_create().

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Dan Carpenter 15 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 2 2
      drivers/usb/core/inode.c

+ 2 - 2
drivers/usb/core/inode.c

@@ -515,13 +515,13 @@ static int fs_create_by_name (const char *name, mode_t mode,
 	*dentry = NULL;
 	mutex_lock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
 	*dentry = lookup_one_len(name, parent, strlen(name));
-	if (!IS_ERR(dentry)) {
+	if (!IS_ERR(*dentry)) {
 		if ((mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFDIR)
 			error = usbfs_mkdir (parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode);
 		else 
 			error = usbfs_create (parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode);
 	} else
-		error = PTR_ERR(dentry);
+		error = PTR_ERR(*dentry);
 	mutex_unlock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
 
 	return error;