Re: [PATCH] kernfs: checking for IS_ERR() instead of NULL

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Aug 31 2017 - 12:52:50 EST


On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 05:04:56PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The kernfs_get_inode() returns NULL on error, it never returns error
> pointers.
>
> Fixes: aa8188253474 ("kernfs: add exportfs operations")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hm, I don't know what tree aa8188253474 is in, but it's not mine, so I
can't take this patch :(

thanks,

greg k-h