From d2a5ee1a6492666ba1c9300173107c65a9139ca6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Binyi Han Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2022 00:46:47 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: fix dereferencing possible ERR_PTR commit 4eb5bbde3ccb710d3b85bfb13466612e56393369 upstream. Smatch checker complains that 'secretmem_mnt' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR(). Let the function return if 'secretmem_mnt' is ERR_PTR, to avoid deferencing it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220904074647.GA64291@cloud-MacBookPro Fixes: 1507f51255c9f ("mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas") Signed-off-by: Binyi Han Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Ammar Faizi Cc: Hagen Paul Pfeifer Cc: James Bottomley Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/secretmem.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/secretmem.c b/mm/secretmem.c index 14f49c0aa66e..d1986ce2e7c7 100644 --- a/mm/secretmem.c +++ b/mm/secretmem.c @@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ static int secretmem_init(void) secretmem_mnt = kern_mount(&secretmem_fs); if (IS_ERR(secretmem_mnt)) - ret = PTR_ERR(secretmem_mnt); + return PTR_ERR(secretmem_mnt); /* prevent secretmem mappings from ever getting PROT_EXEC */ secretmem_mnt->mnt_flags |= MNT_NOEXEC;