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From: vibi sreenivasan <vibi_sreenivasan@cms.com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>, Kylene Hall <kylene@us.ibm.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>,
	Reiner Sailer <sailer@watson.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]:Return proper error value on failure of dentry_open
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:40:51 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1243843851.2327.7.camel@system> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A238625.8060002@gmail.com>


hi,
	thanks for pointing that out.
> >  out:
> >  	mutex_unlock(&iint->mutex);
> > -	if (file)
> > +	if (IS_ERR(file))
> >  		fput(file);
extremely sorry it was 
	if(!IS_ERR(file))
		fput(file);
i will send that patch again

> 
> This makes no sense at all. If it is IS_ERR, i.e. some negative value,
> you don't want to pass it to fput. 'if (file)' was perfectly correct.
	if(file) is true for file != 0 , ie even if file is a -ve error
	value.
	so while fput dereference file ,this can cause a bug to be
	triggered.
	I actually had one.

Thanks & regards
vibi sreenivasan
> 



  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-01  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-01  6:11 [PATCH]:Return proper error value on failure of dentry_open vibi sreenivasan
2009-06-01  7:41 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-06-01  8:10   ` vibi sreenivasan [this message]
2009-06-01  8:27   ` [PATCH]:RESEND : Return " vibi sreenivasan
2009-06-01  8:39     ` Jiri Slaby
2009-06-02  5:21       ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-02  5:35         ` vibi sreenivasan
2009-06-01 20:37 ` [PATCH]:Return " Jon Masters

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