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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch 0/9] Fix resource leaks for exec related stuffs
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 21:47:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080510204731.GK13907@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1210254754206-git-send-email-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 09:52:25PM +0800, WANG Cong wrote:
> This patchset contains various fixes for fs/binfmt_*.c, fs/{exec, compat}.c.
> Most of them are aimed to fix resource leaks in failure path. Others
> are bug fixes in failure path.
> 
> All patches are tested on UML, except [5/9] and [6/9], since I don't have
> the desired environment to test them. It should be OK since [4/9] is the
> similar fix.

3/9 and 8/9 are OK, the rest is either not needed or broken (e.g. 4/9
ends up with double fput() in case of failure in prepare_binfmt(), etc.)

I've applied "fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix a wrong free", slightly simple fix
for lead covered by 3/9, and 8/9 as-is; all in vfs-2.6.git#vfs-2.6.25.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-10 20:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-08 13:52 [Patch 0/9] Fix resource leaks for exec related stuffs WANG Cong
2008-05-08 13:52 ` [Patch 1/9] fs/exec.c: export free_arg_pages WANG Cong
2008-05-10 19:12   ` Al Viro
2008-05-12  3:59     ` WANG Cong
2008-05-08 13:52 ` [Patch 2/9] fs/exec.c: fix resource leaks and wrong goto's WANG Cong
2008-05-10 19:16   ` Al Viro
2008-05-08 13:52 ` [Patch 3/9] fs/compat.c: " WANG Cong
2008-05-10 19:21   ` Al Viro
2008-05-10 20:35     ` Al Viro
2008-05-12  3:46       ` WANG Cong
2008-05-12  4:05         ` Al Viro
2008-05-08 13:52 ` [Patch 4/9] fs/binfmt_script.c: fix resource leaks WANG Cong
2008-05-10 19:24   ` Al Viro
2008-05-08 13:52 ` [Patch 5/9] fs/binfmt_em86.c: " WANG Cong
2008-05-10 19:25   ` Al Viro
2008-05-12  3:53     ` WANG Cong
2008-05-08 13:52 ` [Patch 6/9] fs/binfmt_misc.c: " WANG Cong
2008-05-10 19:25   ` Al Viro
2008-05-08 13:52 ` [Patch 7/9] fs/exec.c: fix wrong return value of prepare_binprm() WANG Cong
2008-05-10 19:31   ` Al Viro
2008-05-12  3:56     ` WANG Cong
2008-05-12  4:01       ` Al Viro
2008-05-12  4:15         ` WANG Cong
2008-05-12  4:37           ` Al Viro
2008-05-12  4:52             ` WANG Cong
2008-05-08 13:52 ` [Patch 8/9] fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix wrong return values WANG Cong
2008-05-08 13:52 ` [Patch 9/9] fs/exec.c: fix a wrong goto path WANG Cong
2008-05-10 19:37   ` Al Viro
2008-05-12  3:51     ` WANG Cong
2008-05-12  3:58       ` Al Viro
2008-05-10 20:47 ` Al Viro [this message]

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