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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] revoke/frevoke system calls
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:19:22 -0700
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On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:07:30 +0300 (EEST)
Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI> wrote:

> From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
> 
> This patch implements the revoke(2) and frevoke(2) system calls for all
> types of files.
>
> ...
>
> -	file = fget_light(fd, &fput_needed);
> +	file = fget(fd);

This is sad.

> +static int revoke_files(struct task_struct *owner, struct inode *inode,
> +			struct file *exclude, struct list_head *to_close)
> +{
> ...
> +	spin_lock(&files->file_lock);
> ...
> +		revoked = kmalloc(sizeof(*revoked), GFP_KERNEL);

This is bad.