From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.pizza>
Cc: coverity-bot <keescook@chromium.org>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
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Tycho Andersen <tandersen@netflix.com>,
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Subject: Re: Coverity: __do_sys_pidfd_send_signal(): UNINIT
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 20:18:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240214191801.GA27799@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Zc0Ca5te+QFBZ1U6@tycho.pizza>
On 02/14, Tycho Andersen wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 06:55:55PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > We want to check the "flags" argument at the start, we do not want to
> > delay the "case 0:" check until we have f.file (so that we can check
> > f.file->f_flags).
>
> Fair point. I was thinking delaying it would make it simpler, but then
> you have to free the file and it's less fast in the EINVAL case.
plus we do not want to return, say, -EBADF if the "flags" argument is wrong.
> I also don't have a strong opinion here.
Neither me.
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-14 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-13 23:59 Coverity: __do_sys_pidfd_send_signal(): UNINIT coverity-bot
2024-02-14 0:18 ` Tycho Andersen
2024-02-14 9:03 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-14 9:06 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-14 14:18 ` Tycho Andersen
2024-02-14 17:55 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-14 18:11 ` Tycho Andersen
2024-02-14 19:18 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2024-02-16 12:37 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-14 18:51 ` Kees Cook
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