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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: ericvh@gmail.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@osdl.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc2-mm2 2/7] v9fs: VFS file, dentry, and directory operations (2.0.2)
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:54:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050714195458.GA22856@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200507141830.j6EIUiRZ023607@ms-smtp-03-eri0.texas.rr.com>

> @@ -383,9 +379,10 @@ v9fs_file_write(struct file *filp, const
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  
>  	ret = copy_from_user(buffer, data, count);
> -	if (ret)
> +	if (ret) {
>  		dprintk(DEBUG_ERROR, "Problem copying from user\n");
> -	else
> +		return -EFAULT;
> +	} else
>  		ret = v9fs_write(filp, buffer, count, offset);
>  
>  	kfree(buffer);

Aren't you leaking buffer in the error case?  Also we Linux people really
hate an else clause when the if block contains a return statement ;-)


  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-14 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-17 13:53 [PATCH 2.6.13-rc2-mm2 2/7] v9fs: VFS file, dentry, and directory operations (2.0.2) ericvh
2005-07-14 19:54 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-07-14 20:15   ` Eric Van Hensbergen

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