debugfs: check return value correctly

The return value is stored in "*dentry", not in "dentry". Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
redpig · Nov 16, 2006 · 7bb0386 · 7bb0386
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commit 7bb0386
Showing 1 changed file with 2 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/fs/debugfs/inode.c b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
@@ -147,13 +147,13 @@ static int debugfs_create_by_name(const char *name, mode_t mode,
 	*dentry = NULL;
 	mutex_lock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
 	*dentry = lookup_one_len(name, parent, strlen(name));
-	if (!IS_ERR(dentry)) {
+	if (!IS_ERR(*dentry)) {
 		if ((mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFDIR)
 			error = debugfs_mkdir(parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode);
 		else 
 			error = debugfs_create(parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode);
 	} else
-		error = PTR_ERR(dentry);
+		error = PTR_ERR(*dentry);
 	mutex_unlock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
 
 	return error;