debugfs: allow bad parent pointers to be passed in
authorGreg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 30 Mar 2015 12:59:15 +0000 (14:59 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 3 Apr 2015 14:30:12 +0000 (16:30 +0200)
commitc9e15f25f514a76d906be01e621f400cdee94558
treefe2cbbcae6a9870adc803dc9f1ecd11da2063aa7
parentfdc81b7910ad5153bf257e5f7861be71f75a02ef
debugfs: allow bad parent pointers to be passed in

If something went wrong with creating a debugfs file/symlink/directory,
that value could be passed down into debugfs again as a parent dentry.
To make caller code simpler, just error out if this happens, and don't
crash the kernel.

Reported-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
fs/debugfs/inode.c