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Commit 2d3145f8 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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early init: fix error handling when opening /dev/console



The comment says "this should never fail", but it definitely can fail
when you have odd initial boot filesystems, or kernel configurations.

So get the error handling right: filp_open() returns an error pointer.

Reported-by: default avatarJesse Barnes <jsbarnes@google.com>
Reported-by: default avataryouling 257 <youling257@gmail.com>
Fixes: 8243186f ("fs: remove ksys_dup()")
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 58d90a04
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