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-rw-r--r--fs/gfs2/inode.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/inode.c b/fs/gfs2/inode.c
index 6bc4436..bab338f 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/inode.c
@@ -361,8 +361,18 @@ out:
struct inode *gfs2_lookup_simple(struct inode *dip, const char *name)
{
struct qstr qstr;
+ struct inode *inode;
gfs2_str2qstr(&qstr, name);
- return gfs2_lookupi(dip, &qstr, 1, NULL);
+ inode = gfs2_lookupi(dip, &qstr, 1, NULL);
+ /* gfs2_lookupi has inconsistent callers: vfs
+ * related routines expect NULL for no entry found,
+ * gfs2_lookup_simple callers expect ENOENT
+ * and do not check for NULL.
+ */
+ if (inode == NULL)
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
+ else
+ return inode;
}