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| author | Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com> | 2012-09-12 20:11:55 -0700 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2013-02-22 23:31:32 -0500 |
| commit | 39b652527457452f09b35044fb4f8b3b0eabafdf (patch) | |
| tree | acd8fda1d4e37c58c68fe0cfb9288d5d06e14441 /arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c | |
| parent | 1afc99beaf0fca3767d9b67789a7ae91c4f7a9c9 (diff) | |
fs: Preserve error code in get_empty_filp(), part 2
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.
[AV: cleaned up a bit, carved the get_empty_filp() part out into a separate commit
(things remaining here deal with alloc_file()), removed pipe(2) behaviour change]
Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c index ea39eba61ef5..433f5e8a2cd1 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c @@ -2221,9 +2221,9 @@ pfm_alloc_file(pfm_context_t *ctx) d_add(path.dentry, inode); file = alloc_file(&path, FMODE_READ, &pfm_file_ops); - if (!file) { + if (IS_ERR(file)) { path_put(&path); - return ERR_PTR(-ENFILE); + return file; } file->f_flags = O_RDONLY; |