linux-kernel - Re: [patch] pipe: Don't oops when pipe filesystem isn't mounted

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Date:	Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:20:17 +0300
From:	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
CC:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] pipe: Don't oops when pipe filesystem isn't mounted

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>> Prevent oops when an app tries to create a pipe while pipefs
>> is not mounted.
> 
> Have you actually seen this, or is this just from looking at code?
> 
> Quite frankly, if "pipe_mnt" is ever NULL, we're dead for lots of other 
> reasons. 
> 
> In fact, pipe_mnt can't be NULL. The way it is initialized is:
> 
> 	pipe_mnt = kern_mount(&pipe_fs_type);
> 
> and pipe_mnt doesn't even return NULL - it returns an error pointer, so if 
> "kern_mount()" were to have failed, pipe_mnt will be some random invalid 
> pointer that could only be tested with IS_ERR(), not by comparing against 
> NULL.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=116510390600001&r=1&w=2

/mjt
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