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From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:16:48 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] selinux: fix dentry_open() error check

The return value of dentry_open() shoud be checked by IS_ERR().

Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
---
 security/selinux/hooks.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
index 8ab5679a37a3..28ee187ed224 100644
--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -1754,7 +1754,8 @@ static inline void flush_unauthorized_files(struct files_struct * files)
 						get_file(devnull);
 					} else {
 						devnull = dentry_open(dget(selinux_null), mntget(selinuxfs_mount), O_RDWR);
-						if (!devnull) {
+						if (IS_ERR(devnull)) {
+							devnull = NULL;
 							put_unused_fd(fd);
 							fput(file);
 							continue;
-- 
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