... just short-circuit the creation of potential children Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
@@ -138,6 +138,9 @@ static int __oprofilefs_create_file(struct dentry *root, char const *name,
struct dentry *dentry;
struct inode *inode;
+ if (!root)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
inode_lock(d_inode(root));
dentry = d_alloc_name(root, name);
if (!dentry) {