alpha: PTR_ERR overwrites -EINVAL in syscall osf_mount

The initial -EINVAL value is overwritten by `retval = PTR_ERR(name)'.  If
this isn't an error pointer and typenr is not 1, 6 or 9, then this retval,
a pointer cast to a long, is returned.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <[email protected]>
Cc: Matt Turner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
index 62619f25132f93018d3a7850dda6c91aee5d0eb2..53c213f70fcbc8151b42fea8b50998bf509e5fea 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ osf_procfs_mount(char *dirname, struct procfs_args __user *args, int flags)
 SYSCALL_DEFINE4(osf_mount, unsigned long, typenr, char __user *, path,
                int, flag, void __user *, data)
 {
-       int retval = -EINVAL;
+       int retval;
        char *name;
 
        name = getname(path);
@@ -379,6 +379,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(osf_mount, unsigned long, typenr, char __user *, path,
                retval = osf_procfs_mount(name, data, flag);
                break;
        default:
+               retval = -EINVAL;
                printk("osf_mount(%ld, %x)\n", typenr, flag);
        }
        putname(name);