From: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>, Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, hch@infradead.org, agruen@suse.de,
npiggin@kernel.dk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/34] VFS: Make clone_mnt() and copy_tree() return error codes
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:44:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100930214418.GB490@shell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100930214123.GA490@shell>
(Resend with correct email for Ram Pai)
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:51:30AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Valerie Aurora wrote:
> > copy_tree() can theoretically fail in a case other than ENOMEM, but
> > always returns NULL which is interpreted by callers as -ENOMEM.
> > Convert to return an explicit error. Convert clone_mnt() for
> > consistency and because union mounts will add new error cases.
>
> I think it makes sense to push this fix to 2.6.37 independently of the
> other patches.
>
> Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
I'm certainly not going to argue, but I spent an hour trying to
trigger the non-ENOMEM case (below) and failed - maybe it's
unreachable?
> > @@ -1212,11 +1216,12 @@ struct vfsmount *copy_tree(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry,
> > struct path path;
> >
> > if (!(flag & CL_COPY_ALL) && IS_MNT_UNBINDABLE(mnt))
> > - return NULL;
> > + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
Ram, do you remember how this worked?
-VAL
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-30 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-16 22:11 [PATCH 00/34] Union mount core for review Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:11 ` [PATCH 01/34] VFS: Make clone_mnt() and copy_tree() return error codes Valerie Aurora
2010-09-20 21:26 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2010-09-21 18:53 ` Valerie Aurora
2010-09-30 9:51 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-30 21:41 ` Valerie Aurora
2010-09-30 21:44 ` Valerie Aurora [this message]
2010-10-01 0:33 ` Ram Pai
2010-10-01 1:58 ` Ram Pai
2010-10-01 9:12 ` Szeredi Miklos
2010-10-01 18:32 ` Ram Pai
2010-10-06 18:24 ` Valerie Aurora
2010-10-12 7:41 ` Ram Pai
2010-10-06 18:31 ` Valerie Aurora
2010-10-07 9:42 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-16 22:11 ` [PATCH 02/34] VFS: Add CL_NO_SHARED flag to clone_mnt()/copy_tree() Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:11 ` [PATCH 03/34] VFS: Add CL_NO_SLAVE " Valerie Aurora
[not found] ` <AANLkTim1bbGrrPcFHThx3XOm8GmudQFSmFUs3NAXT5yC@mail.gmail.com>
2010-09-17 4:34 ` Ram Pai
2010-09-17 17:15 ` Valerie Aurora
2010-09-20 5:25 ` Ram Pai
2010-09-21 0:03 ` Valerie Aurora
2010-09-27 5:42 ` Ram Pai
2010-09-27 18:50 ` Valerie Aurora
2010-10-01 0:44 ` Ram Pai
2010-09-16 22:11 ` [PATCH 04/34] VFS: Add CL_MAKE_HARD_READONLY " Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:11 ` [PATCH 05/34] union-mount: Union mounts documentation Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:11 ` [PATCH 06/34] union-mount: Introduce MNT_UNION and MS_UNION flags Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:11 ` [PATCH 07/34] union-mount: Add CONFIG_UNION_MOUNT option Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:11 ` [PATCH 08/34] union-mount: Create union_stack structure Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 09/34] union-mount: Add two superblock fields for union mounts Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 10/34] union-mount: Add union_alloc() Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 11/34] union-mount: Add union_find_dir() Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 12/34] union-mount: Create d_free_unions() Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 13/34] union-mount: Free union stack on removal of topmost dentry from dcache Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 14/34] union-mount: Create union_add_dir() Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 15/34] union-mount: Add union_create_topmost_dir() Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 16/34] union-mount: Create IS_MNT_UNION() Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 17/34] union-mount: Create needs_lookup_union() Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 18/34] union-mount: Create check_topmost_union_mnt() Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 19/34] union-mount: Add clone_union_tree() and put_union_sb() Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 20/34] union-mount: Create build_root_union() Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 21/34] union-mount: Create prepare_mnt_union() and cleanup_mnt_union() Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 22/34] union-mount: Prevent improper union-related remounts Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 23/34] union-mount: Prevent topmost file system from being mounted elsewhere Valerie Aurora
2010-09-30 9:37 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-30 21:47 ` Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 24/34] union-mount: Prevent bind mounts of union mounts Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 25/34] union-mount: Implement union mount Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 26/34] union-mount: Temporarily disable some syscalls Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 27/34] union-mount: Basic infrastructure of __union_lookup() Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 28/34] union-mount: Process negative dentries in __union_lookup() Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 29/34] union-mount: Return files found in lower layers " Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 30/34] union-mount: Build union stack in __lookup_union() Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 31/34] union-mount: Follow mount " Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 32/34] union-mount: Add lookup_union() wrapper for __lookup_union() Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 33/34] union-mount: Add do_lookup_union() " Valerie Aurora
2010-09-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 34/34] union-mount: Call union lookup functions in lookup path Valerie Aurora
2010-09-21 0:02 ` [PATCH -1/34] VFS: Add hard read-only users count to superblock Valerie Aurora
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