From: Dan Carpenter commit 57f9bdac2510cd7fda58e4a111d250861eb1ebeb upstream. d_path() returns an ERR_PTR and it doesn't return NULL. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/sysfs/file.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/sysfs/file.c +++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ static int sysfs_open_file(struct inode char *p; p = d_path(&file->f_path, last_sysfs_file, sizeof(last_sysfs_file)); - if (p) + if (!IS_ERR(p)) memmove(last_sysfs_file, p, strlen(p) + 1); /* need attr_sd for attr and ops, its parent for kobj */