Re: [PATCH] fs/9p/: don't treat error as status value in file locking

[Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>]

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On 06/22/2014 07:44 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> When trying to lock a file we didn't properly handle the case where a
> failure in p9_client_lock_dotl() occurs and treated the status value
> as valid instead of discarding it due to the error.
> 
> This would usually trigger a BUG() since the status value would
> just be stack garbage.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
> ---
>  fs/9p/vfs_file.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/9p/vfs_file.c b/fs/9p/vfs_file.c
> index 520c11c..06077f3 100644
> --- a/fs/9p/vfs_file.c
> +++ b/fs/9p/vfs_file.c
> @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ static int v9fs_file_do_lock(struct file *filp, int cmd, struct file_lock *fl)
>  	for (;;) {
>  		res = p9_client_lock_dotl(fid, &flock, &status);
>  		if (res < 0)
> -			break;
> +			return res;
>  
>  		if (status != P9_LOCK_BLOCKED)
>  			break;
>