The return value is stored in "*dentry", not in "dentry".
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
        *dentry = NULL;
        mutex_lock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
        *dentry = lookup_one_len(name, parent, strlen(name));
-       if (!IS_ERR(dentry)) {
+       if (!IS_ERR(*dentry)) {
                if ((mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFDIR)
                        error = debugfs_mkdir(parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode);
                else 
                        error = debugfs_create(parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode);
        } else
-               error = PTR_ERR(dentry);
+               error = PTR_ERR(*dentry);
        mutex_unlock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
 
        return error;