[Cluster-devel] [PATCH 07/10] locks: define a lm_setup handler for leases

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 09:19:53PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > I don't think this is a good idea.  The errors in __f_setown come from
> > the security modules, and they could change easily.  If you can convince
> > the LSM people to change their file_set_fowner routine to return void
> > we could change __f_setown to return void as well and be done with it,
> > but without that this looks too dangerous.
> > 
> 
> Understood. I figured that this might not be acceptable. I can make
> this propagate the error back up, but cleaning up the mess may not be
> easy. I'll see what I can do.

I'd say talk to the LSM people.  Right now they are only using it to
set up private data pointers, so they might agree on turning it into
a void return.  Or just be bold and do that work yourself, include it in
this series and just Cc them.