Re: [PATCH] fs/eventfd.c: Check error number after calling ida_simple_get

[Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 03:00:23PM +0800, Jiasheng Jiang wrote:
> As the possible failure of the allocation, the ida_simple_get() will
> return error number.
> And then ctx->id will be printed in eventfd_show_fdinfo().
> Therefore, it should be better to check it and return error if fails,
> like the other allocation.
> 
> Fixes: b556db17b0e7 ("eventfd: present id to userspace via fdinfo")
> Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@iscas.ac.cn>
> ---
>  fs/eventfd.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/eventfd.c b/fs/eventfd.c
> index 3627dd7d25db..5ec1d998f3ac 100644
> --- a/fs/eventfd.c
> +++ b/fs/eventfd.c
> @@ -424,6 +424,10 @@ static int do_eventfd(unsigned int count, int flags)
>  	ctx->count = count;
>  	ctx->flags = flags;
>  	ctx->id = ida_simple_get(&eventfd_ida, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (ctx->id) {
> +		fd = ctx->id;
> +		goto err;
> +	}

Shouldn't this be 'ctx->id < 0'?

- Eric