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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 18:52:47 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernfs: checking for IS_ERR() instead of NULL
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On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 05:04:56PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The kernfs_get_inode() returns NULL on error, it never returns error
> pointers.
> 
> Fixes: aa8188253474 ("kernfs: add exportfs operations")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Hm, I don't know what tree aa8188253474 is in, but it's not mine, so I
can't take this patch :(

thanks,

greg k-h