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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: One more unlock missing in error case
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 02:46:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060205014609.GA5271@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060204160830.1a9810a2.akpm@osdl.org>

On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 04:08:30PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > This patch is needed to in addition to the other unlocking fix which is
> >  already applied.  It should be obvious that the system will deadlock in
> >  case this isn't done.
> 
> hmm.  How's about we undo that goto tangle while we're there?
>...

The fput_unlock_fail label change looks good, but IMHO moving of retval 
settings out of the if's makes the code less readable.

cu
Adrian

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        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-05  1:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-04 17:23 One more unlock missing in error case Ulrich Drepper
2006-02-05  0:08 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-05  0:49   ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-02-05  1:46   ` Adrian Bunk [this message]

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