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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
To: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk,
	tytso@mit.edu, Anatol Pomazau <anatol@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Preserve error code in get_empty_filp()
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:06:33 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1208211204420.1100@frira.zrqbmnf.qr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1343845147-21394-1-git-send-email-anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>


On Wednesday 2012-08-01 20:19, anatol.pomozov@gmail.com wrote:
>Allocating a file structure in function get_empty_filp() might fail because
>of several reasons:
> - not enough memory for file structures
> - operation is not allowed
> - user is over its limit
>
>Currently the function returns NULL in all cases and we loose the exact
>reason of the error. All callers of get_empty_filp() assume that the function
>can fail with ENFILE only.
>
>Return error through pointer. Change all callers to preserve this error code.

> 	percpu_counter_inc(&nr_files);
> 	f->f_cred = get_cred(cred);
>-	if (security_file_alloc(f))
>+	if (security_file_alloc(f)) {
>+		error = -EPERM;
> 		goto fail_sec;
>+	}

You are not preserving the error code from security_file_alloc here.

In particular, apparmoar/lsm.c: file_alloc_security can return -ENOMEM,
for example.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-21 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-01 18:19 [PATCH] fs: Preserve error code in get_empty_filp() anatol.pomozov
2012-08-01 18:34 ` anatol.pomozov
2012-08-03  0:30   ` Anatol Pomozov
2012-08-03  0:47 ` Anatol Pomozov
2012-09-04 21:15   ` Anatol Pomozov
2012-08-21 10:06 ` Jan Engelhardt [this message]
2012-08-21 13:51   ` Anatol Pomozov
2012-09-13  3:11 Anatol Pomozov
2012-10-05 18:16 ` Anatol Pomozov
2012-10-05 18:39   ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-02-15  2:21   ` Al Viro
2013-02-21 16:36     ` Theodore Ts'o

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