From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Qian Cai <cai@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] fs: Fix memory leaks in do_renameat2() error paths
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 10:49:34 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa085de9-766c-156a-e6ef-bd834b0cc626@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <09fa614adb555358d39ab606a8c6a2d89ba4a11d.camel@redhat.com>
On 10/30/20 9:52 AM, Qian Cai wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-10-30 at 09:27 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 10/30/20 9:24 AM, Qian Cai wrote:
>>> We will need to call putname() before do_renameat2() returning -EINVAL
>>> to avoid memory leaks.
>>
>> Thanks, should mention that this isn't final by any stretch (which is
>> why it hasn't been posted yet), just pushed out for some exposure.
>
> I don't know what other people think about this, but I do find a bit
> discouraging in testing those half-baked patches in linux-next where it does not
> even ready to post for a review.
I don't disagree with that and this doesn't normally happen. I don't
want to get into the reasonings, but things had to be shuffled which is
why they ended up in -next before being posted this week. They will go
out shortly.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-30 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-30 15:24 [PATCH -next] fs: Fix memory leaks in do_renameat2() error paths Qian Cai
2020-10-30 15:27 ` Jens Axboe
2020-10-30 15:52 ` Qian Cai
2020-10-30 16:49 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2020-10-30 18:42 ` Al Viro
2020-10-30 18:46 ` Jens Axboe
2020-10-30 18:49 ` Al Viro
2020-10-30 20:33 ` Jens Axboe
2020-10-30 22:22 ` Al Viro
2020-10-30 23:21 ` Jens Axboe
2020-11-02 18:43 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-02 19:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-02 19:54 ` Jens Axboe
2020-11-02 20:12 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-02 20:31 ` Jens Axboe
2020-11-02 21:39 ` Jens Axboe
2020-11-03 14:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
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