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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Yan Zheng" <yanzheng@21cn.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Subject: Re: [patch]anon_inodes.c: fix error check in anon_inode_getfd
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:59:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070926205957.54f49465.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3d0408630709261930l730f5081n2391b236dd0efb71@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:30:50 +0800 "Yan Zheng" <yanzheng@21cn.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> igrab return NULL on error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng<yanzheng@21cn.com>
> ---
> diff -ur linux-2.6.23-rc8/fs/anon_inodes.c linux/fs/anon_inodes.c
> --- linux-2.6.23-rc8/fs/anon_inodes.c	2007-09-27 10:05:07.000000000 +0800
> +++ linux/fs/anon_inodes.c	2007-09-27 10:18:26.000000000 +0800
> @@ -87,8 +87,8 @@
>  		return -ENFILE;
> 
>  	inode = igrab(anon_inode_inode);
> -	if (IS_ERR(inode)) {
> -		error = PTR_ERR(inode);
> +	if (!inode) {
> +		error = -ENOENT;
>  		goto err_put_filp;
>  	}

hm, does that code actually need to exist?  igrab() is pretty expensive and
that fs is permanently mounted anyway...


  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-27  4:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-27  2:30 [patch]anon_inodes.c: fix error check in anon_inode_getfd Yan Zheng
2007-09-27  3:59 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-09-27 16:41   ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-27 16:54     ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-27 17:40       ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-27 17:56         ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-27 18:20           ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-27 18:25             ` Davide Libenzi

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