linux-kernel - Re: [Patch] proc: check error pointer returned by m

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Date:	Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:58:10 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Eric B Munson <emunson@...bm.net>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Subject: Re: [Patch] proc: check error pointer returned by m_start()

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> This is true, that commit changed the return value of m_start(),
> which will return an error pointer on failure, but Al forgot
> to check the error pointer in m_stop() which will be called
> when m_start() fails. This patches fixes it.

I did this slightly differently, and put the check in m_stop()
instead, because I felt that matched the logic of m_start, while
vma_stop() is more of an internal helper thing.

I dunno. I don't think it matters. But one thing I reacted to was that
when I was walking through the logic, I really wanted to say "seq_file
is wrong to call m_stop if m_start returned an error code". I really
felt like "hwy, if ->start fails, we damn well shouldn't have called
->stop".

But I guess we're stuck with that particular semantic for seq_files by now.

                         Linus
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