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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
	Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com>,
	Vladislav Buzov <vbuzov@embeddedalley.com>,
	Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>,
	Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] cgroup: implement eventfd-based generic API for notifications
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 14:36:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cc557aab1001070436w446ef85n55dd2af5e733f55e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6599ad831001061701x72098dacn7a5d916418396e33@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Paul Menage <menage@google.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov
> <kirill@shutemov.name> wrote:
>> +
>> +       if (!IS_ERR(efile))
>> +               fput(efile);
>
> While this is OK currently, it's a bit fragile. efile starts as NULL,
> and IS_ERR(NULL) is false. So if we jump to fail: before trying to do
> the eventfd_fget() then we'll try to fput(NULL), which will oops. This
> works because we don't currently jump to fail: until after
> eventfd_fget(), but someone could add an extra setup step between the
> kzalloc() and the eventfd_fget() which could fail.

So we need to use IS_ERR_OR_NULL here instread of IS_ERR, don't we?

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-07 12:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-30 15:57 [PATCH v5 0/4] cgroup notifications API and memory thresholds Kirill A. Shutemov
2009-12-30 15:57 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] cgroup: implement eventfd-based generic API for notifications Kirill A. Shutemov
2009-12-30 15:57   ` [PATCH v5 2/4] memcg: extract mem_group_usage() from mem_cgroup_read() Kirill A. Shutemov
2009-12-30 15:57     ` [PATCH v5 3/4] memcg: rework usage of stats by soft limit Kirill A. Shutemov
2009-12-30 15:57       ` [PATCH v5 4/4] memcg: implement memory thresholds Kirill A. Shutemov
2010-01-04  0:00         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-03 23:56       ` [PATCH v5 3/4] memcg: rework usage of stats by soft limit KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-07  1:01   ` [PATCH v5 1/4] cgroup: implement eventfd-based generic API for notifications Paul Menage
2010-01-07 12:36     ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2010-01-08  0:55       ` Li Zefan
2010-01-08  1:05         ` Paul Menage
2010-01-04  0:36 ` [PATCH v5 0/4] cgroup notifications API and memory thresholds Balbir Singh
2010-01-04 10:15   ` Kirill A. Shutemov

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