ovl: fix random return value on mount

commit 8fc646b44385ff0a9853f6590497e43049eeb311 upstream.

On failure to prepare_creds(), mount fails with a random
return value, as err was last set to an integer cast of
a valid lower mnt pointer or set to 0 if inodes index feature
is enabled.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Fixes: 3fe6e52f0626 ("ovl: override creds with the ones from ...")
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index 2a01489..e7c8ac4 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -1310,6 +1310,7 @@ static int ovl_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
        else
                sb->s_d_op = &ovl_dentry_operations;
 
+       err = -ENOMEM;
        ufs->creator_cred = cred = prepare_creds();
        if (!cred)
                goto out_put_lower_mnt;