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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: vibi_sreenivasan@cms.com
Cc: 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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]:RESEND : Return proper error value on failure of dentry_open
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:39:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A2393DE.10300@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1243844849.2327.27.camel@system>

On 06/01/2009 10:27 AM, vibi sreenivasan wrote:
> --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c
> +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c
> @@ -201,10 +201,10 @@ int ima_path_check(struct path *path, int mask)
>  	}
>  out:
>  	mutex_unlock(&iint->mutex);
> -	if (file)
> +	if (!IS_ERR(file))
>  		fput(file);

No, IS_ERR won't catch NULL and there is 'file = NULL' on the
dentry_open fail path. I still think 'if (file)' is proper condition.

What bug did you hit?

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-01  8:40 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 [this message]
2009-06-02  5:21       ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-02  5:35         ` vibi sreenivasan
2009-06-01 20:37 ` [PATCH]:Return " Jon Masters

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