From 2d3145f8d2809592ef803a30c8a342b5a9e2de9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 13:10:11 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] early init: fix error handling when opening /dev/console
The comment says "this should never fail", but it definitely can fail
when you have odd initial boot filesystems, or kernel configurations.
So get the error handling right: filp_open() returns an error pointer.
Reported-by: Jesse Barnes <jsbarnes@google.com>
Reported-by: youling 257 <youling257@gmail.com>
Fixes: 8243186f0cc7 ("fs: remove ksys_dup()")
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
init/main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index ec3a1463ac692..1ecfd43ed4643 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -1163,7 +1163,7 @@ void console_on_rootfs(void)
/* Open /dev/console in kernelspace, this should never fail */
file = filp_open("/dev/console", O_RDWR, 0);
- if (!file)
+ if (IS_ERR(file))
goto err_out;
/* create stdin/stdout/stderr, this should never fail */
--
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