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Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:04:16 -0800 (PST) From: Ethan Tidmore To: linkinjeon@kernel.org, hyc.lee@gmail.com Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ethan Tidmore Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ntfs: Replace ERR_PTR(0) with NULL Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:03:54 -0600 Message-ID: <20260226040355.1974628-2-ethantidmore06@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.53.0 In-Reply-To: <20260226040355.1974628-1-ethantidmore06@gmail.com> References: <20260226040355.1974628-1-ethantidmore06@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" The variable err is confirmed to be 0 and then never reassigned in the success path. The function then returns with ERR_PTR(err) which just equals NULL and can be misleading. Detected by Smatch: fs/ntfs/namei.c:1091 ntfs_mkdir() warn: passing zero to 'ERR_PTR' Signed-off-by: Ethan Tidmore Reviewed-by: Hyunchul Lee --- fs/ntfs/namei.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ntfs/namei.c b/fs/ntfs/namei.c index a21eeaec57b4..cecfaabfbfe7 100644 --- a/fs/ntfs/namei.c +++ b/fs/ntfs/namei.c @@ -1088,7 +1088,7 @@ static struct dentry *ntfs_mkdir(struct mnt_idmap *id= map, struct inode *dir, } =20 d_instantiate_new(dentry, VFS_I(ni)); - return ERR_PTR(err); + return NULL; } =20 static int ntfs_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry) --=20 2.53.0