[PATCH next] afs: Fix error code in afs_alloc_cell()

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at linaro.org
Wed Mar 5 07:00:32 PST 2025


Return the error code if idr_alloc_cyclic() fails.  Currently it
potentially could return either -ENOMEM or an uninitialized variable.

Fixes: 72c52e46a517 ("afs: Change dynroot to create contents on demand")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at linaro.org>
---
 fs/afs/cell.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/afs/cell.c b/fs/afs/cell.c
index 9f6b7718836c..dc56b0203b53 100644
--- a/fs/afs/cell.c
+++ b/fs/afs/cell.c
@@ -200,8 +200,10 @@ static struct afs_cell *afs_alloc_cell(struct afs_net *net,
 	atomic_inc(&net->cells_outstanding);
 	cell->dynroot_ino = idr_alloc_cyclic(&net->cells_dyn_ino, cell,
 					     2, INT_MAX / 2, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if ((int)cell->dynroot_ino < 0)
+	if ((int)cell->dynroot_ino < 0) {
+		ret = cell->dynroot_ino;
 		goto error;
+	}
 	cell->debug_id = atomic_inc_return(&cell_debug_id);
 
 	trace_afs_cell(cell->debug_id, 1, 0, afs_cell_trace_alloc);
-- 
2.47.2




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