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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
	Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>,
	linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alpha: PTR_ERR overwrites -EINVAL in syscall osf_mount
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:16:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B69AF72.3000208@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B699B06.2040202@gmail.com>

On 02/03/2010 07:49 AM, Roel Kluin wrote:
> The initial -EINVAL value is overwritten by `retval = PTR_ERR(name)'.
> If this isn't an error pointer and typenr is not 1, 6 or 9, then
> this retval, a pointer cast to a long, is returned.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin<roel.kluin@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>


r~

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-03 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-03 15:49 [PATCH] alpha: PTR_ERR overwrites -EINVAL in syscall osf_mount Roel Kluin
2010-02-03 15:52 ` Matt Turner
2010-02-03 17:16 ` Richard Henderson [this message]

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