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From: vibi sreenivasan <vibi_sreenivasan@cms.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>, Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>,
	Kylene Hall <kylene@us.ibm.com>, Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>,
	Reiner Sailer <sailer@watson.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]:RESEND : Return proper error value on failure of dentry_open
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:05:40 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1243920940.2170.12.camel@system> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090601222105.16e20612.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

hi,
	Thanks for spending your time on my patch.
> > What bug did you hit?
i was using linus tree & not linux-next.
in that the code fragment was different
it was

		file = dentry_open(dentry, mnt, O_RDONLY, current->cred);
		rc = get_path_measurement(iint, file, dentry->d_name.name);
	}
out:
	mutex_unlock(&iint->mutex);
	if (file)
		fput(file);
	kref_put(&iint->refcount, iint_free);
	return 0;

So i hit a bug in fput.

My sincere apologies for taking all of yours valuable time.
I will take care that any of my future contributions will be
based on linux-next.

Thanks & Regards
vibi sreenivasan

> 	if (!(iint->flags & IMA_MEASURED)) {
> 		struct dentry *dentry = dget(path->dentry);
> 		struct vfsmount *mnt = mntget(path->mnt);
> 
> 		file = dentry_open(dentry, mnt, O_RDONLY | O_LARGEFILE,
> 				   current_cred());
> 		if (IS_ERR(file)) {
> 			pr_info("%s dentry_open failed\n", dentry->d_name.name);
> 			rc = PTR_ERR(file);
> 			file = NULL;
> 			goto out;
> 		}
> 		rc = get_path_measurement(iint, file, dentry->d_name.name);
> 	}
> out:
> 	mutex_unlock(&iint->mutex);
> 	if (file)
> 		fput(file);
> 	kref_put(&iint->refcount, iint_free);
> 	return 0;
> }
> 
> The handling of `file' looks OK to me.
> 
> otoh the function just drops the error code on the floor.  Shouldn't it
> return `rc'?
> 
> 
> 



  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-02  5:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-01  6:11 [PATCH]:Return proper error value on failure of dentry_open vibi sreenivasan
2009-06-01  7:41 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-06-01  8:10   ` vibi sreenivasan
2009-06-01  8:27   ` [PATCH]:RESEND : Return " vibi sreenivasan
2009-06-01  8:39     ` Jiri Slaby
2009-06-02  5:21       ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-02  5:35         ` vibi sreenivasan [this message]
2009-06-01 20:37 ` [PATCH]:Return " Jon Masters

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