Merge tag 'v6.17.8' into linux-6.17.ylinux-6.17.y

This is the 6.17.8 stable release

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 9655158c3885..4890b13461c7 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -1059,18 +1059,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(finish_open);
  * finish_no_open - finish ->atomic_open() without opening the file
  *
  * @file: file pointer
- * @dentry: dentry or NULL (as returned from ->lookup())
+ * @dentry: dentry, ERR_PTR(-E...) or NULL (as returned from ->lookup())
  *
- * This can be used to set the result of a successful lookup in ->atomic_open().
+ * This can be used to set the result of a lookup in ->atomic_open().
  *
  * NB: unlike finish_open() this function does consume the dentry reference and
  * the caller need not dput() it.
  *
- * Returns "0" which must be the return value of ->atomic_open() after having
- * called this function.
+ * Returns 0 or -E..., which must be the return value of ->atomic_open() after
+ * having called this function.
  */
 int finish_no_open(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry)
 {
+	if (IS_ERR(dentry))
+		return PTR_ERR(dentry);
 	file->f_path.dentry = dentry;
 	return 0;
 }