linux-kernel - Re: [Fwd: Re: [PATCH]:RESEND : Return proper error value on failure of dentry

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Date:	Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:59:44 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	vibi_sreenivasan@....com
CC:	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ibm.com>, Kylene Hall <kylene@...ibm.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>,
	Reiner Sailer <sailer@...son.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [PATCH]:RESEND : Return proper error value on failure
 of dentry_open]

On 06/01/2009 11:46 AM, vibi sreenivasan wrote:
>>>>  	mutex_unlock(&iint->mutex);
>>>> -	if (file)
>>>> +	if (!IS_ERR(file))
>>>>  		fput(file);
>>>
>>> No, IS_ERR won't catch NULL and there is 'file = NULL' on the
>>> dentry_open fail path.
> Can you please point out that line number in fs/open.c

Aha, you use linus's git. This has been fixed by
f06dd16a03f6f7f72fab4db03be36e28c28c6fd6
(IMA: Handle dentry_open failures)
in -next.
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