linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] ext4: better error handling of kstrdup()

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Date:	Fri, 3 Apr 2015 13:44:20 -0400
From:	Taesoo Kim <taesoo@...ech.edu>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Taesoo Kim <tsgatesv@...il.com>,
	adilger.kernel@...ger.ca, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, changwoo@...ech.edu,
	sanidhya@...ech.edu, blee@...ech.edu, csong84@...ech.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ext4: better error handling of kstrdup()

Hi Ted,

It's my fault. I didn't properly check the case of having data = NULL
to kstrdup() as my system has long mounting options.. Sorry for the
trouble. I think there is no clean way to handle this error (better),
other than implicitly letting kstrdup() fail (and ignore).

Taesoo

On 04/03/15 at 01:09am, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 05:21:54PM -0400, Taesoo Kim wrote:
> > Upon memory pressure, kstrdup() might fail and correctly
> > handle memory error, although current implementation do not
> > refer orig_data.
> > 
> > NOTE. fortunately the correct impl works, other than a
> > corner case where kstrdup() fails and kzalloc() succeeds;
> > it might record 'NULL' in the log.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Taesoo Kim <tsgatesv@...il.com>
> 
> Did you test this patch?  If there are no mount options (such as when
> mounting the root file system, data is NULL, so orig_data is NULL),
> and the mount fails.  So a kernel won't boot with this patch applied.
> 
> 					- Ted
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