[PATCH 1/4] cgroup: fix error return value in cgroup_mount()

Tejun Heo tj at kernel.org
Tue Jan 28 15:32:02 UTC 2014


When cgroup_mount() fails to allocate an id for the root, it didn't
set ret before jumping to unlock_drop ending up returning 0 after a
failure.  Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
---
 kernel/cgroup.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index e2f46ba..364aeb22 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -1566,10 +1566,10 @@ static struct dentry *cgroup_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
 		mutex_lock(&cgroup_mutex);
 		mutex_lock(&cgroup_root_mutex);
 
-		root_cgrp->id = idr_alloc(&root->cgroup_idr, root_cgrp,
-					   0, 1, GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (root_cgrp->id < 0)
+		ret = idr_alloc(&root->cgroup_idr, root_cgrp, 0, 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (ret < 0)
 			goto unlock_drop;
+		root_cgrp->id = ret;
 
 		/* Check for name clashes with existing mounts */
 		ret = -EBUSY;
-- 
1.8.5.3



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