From: Jeff Dike This cleans up the error handling and fixes a crash if a hostfs mount fails. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c~uml-hostfs-failed-mount-handling fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c --- 25/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c~uml-hostfs-failed-mount-handling Mon May 2 17:15:41 2005 +++ 25-akpm/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c Mon May 2 17:15:41 2005 @@ -991,13 +991,17 @@ static int hostfs_fill_sb_common(struct goto out_put; err = read_inode(root_inode); - if(err) - goto out_put; + if(err){ + /* No iput in this case because the dput does that for us */ + dput(sb->s_root); + sb->s_root = NULL; + goto out_free; + } return(0); out_put: - iput(root_inode); + iput(root_inode); out_free: kfree(name); out: _