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From:   Rolf Eike Beer <eb@emlix.com>
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        Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>,
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Subject: [PATCH] binfmt_elf: fix documented return value for load_elf_phdrs()
Date:   Wed, 05 Aug 2020 09:52:23 +0200
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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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