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From: Rolf Eike Beer <eb@emlix.com>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: [PATCH] binfmt_elf: fix documented return value for load_elf_phdrs()
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2020 09:52:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6469675.ETGqQKjL3G@devpool35> (raw)

This function has never returned anything but a plain NULL.

Fixes: 6a8d38945cf4e6e819d6b550250615db763065a0
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eb@emlix.com>
---
 fs/binfmt_elf.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index 9fe3b51c116a..251298d25c8c 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ static int elf_read(struct file *file, void *buf, size_t len, loff_t pos)
  *
  * Loads ELF program headers from the binary file elf_file, which has the ELF
  * header pointed to by elf_ex, into a newly allocated array. The caller is
- * responsible for freeing the allocated data. Returns an ERR_PTR upon failure.
+ * responsible for freeing the allocated data. Returns NULL upon failure.
  */
 static struct elf_phdr *load_elf_phdrs(const struct elfhdr *elf_ex,
 				       struct file *elf_file)
-- 
2.28.0


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             reply	other threads:[~2020-08-05  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-05  7:52 Rolf Eike Beer [this message]
2020-08-05  8:53 ` binfmt_elf: simplify error handling in load_elf_phdrs() Rolf Eike Beer
2022-10-19  7:43 [PATCH] binfmt_elf: fix documented return value for load_elf_phdrs() Rolf Eike Beer
2022-10-25 22:24 ` Kees Cook

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