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From: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>, <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	<kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] Btrfs: kfree()ing ERR_PTRs
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 08:48:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54085F9E.80206@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140904110915.GB21504@mwanda>



On 09/04/2014 07:09 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The "inherit" in btrfs_ioctl_snap_create_v2() and "vol_args" in
> btrfs_ioctl_rm_dev() are ERR_PTRs so we can't call kfree() on them.
> 
> These kind of bugs are "One Err Bugs" where there is just one error
> label that does everything.  I could set the "inherit = NULL" and keep
> the single out label but it ends up being more complicated that way.  It
> makes the code simpler to re-order the unwind so it's in the mirror
> order of the allocation and introduce some new error labels.

Thanks Dan, agreed on the unwinding.

-chris

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-04 12:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-04 11:09 [patch] Btrfs: kfree()ing ERR_PTRs Dan Carpenter
2014-09-04 12:11 ` walter harms
2014-09-04 12:23   ` Dan Carpenter
2014-09-04 12:48 ` Chris Mason [this message]

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