The return value of dentry_open() shoud be checked by IS_ERR(). Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
@@ -1754,7 +1754,8 @@ static inline void flush_unauthorized_files(struct files_struct * files)
get_file(devnull);
} else {
devnull = dentry_open(dget(selinux_null), mntget(selinuxfs_mount), O_RDWR);
- if (!devnull) {
+ if (IS_ERR(devnull)) {
+ devnull = NULL;
put_unused_fd(fd);
fput(file);
continue;