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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
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Subject: Re: [OOPS] 2.5.62, bootup, do_add_mount
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Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> presto_get_sb() is returning error resulting in the following NULL 
> pointer reference in do_kern_mount(). The following patch corrects
> it.
> 

It should be returning some ERR_PTR value.  Seems that presto_get_sb() isn't
very careful in tracking the reason for the failed mount, so

	return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);

should suffice.
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