Re: [OOPS] 2.5.62, bootup, do_add_mount

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Date: Tue Feb 25 2003 - 03:04:48 EST


Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> presto_get_sb() is returning error resulting in the following NULL
> pointer reference in do_kern_mount(). The following patch corrects
> it.
>

It should be returning some ERR_PTR value. Seems that presto_get_sb() isn't
very careful in tracking the reason for the failed mount, so

        return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);

should suffice.
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