linux-kernel - Re: file locking fix for 3.2

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Date:	Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:05:42 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: file locking fix for 3.2

On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 06:50:35PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

> Then you're returning -ENOMEM in a case when we really didn't need to do
> an allocation, but is that really a problem?  It's a rare case, and
> opens can already fail with -ENOMEM for other reasons, and I'd rather
> not have the extra hair.

I'm certainly OK with that variant; if the folks maintaining fs/locks.c
are happy with it, I'd suggest going for it.  Note that you don't need
to touch locks_conflict() call at all if you bail out early on allocation
failure and it's definitely simpler and cleaner that way.
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