linux-kernel - Re: BUG: file descriptors leak when sys

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Message-Id: <E1J390D-0004Xr-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
Date:	Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:46:49 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org (Andrew Morton)
Cc:	xiaosuo@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jens.axboe@...cle.com
Subject: Re: BUG: file descriptors leak when sys_pipe failed with -EFAULT

Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> The consequences of this are that the application may eventually run out of
> file descriptors and they will be cleaned up when the application exits
> anyway, so it isn't terribly serious.

If an application is calling pipe(2) with bogus pointers then
leaving open file descriptors behind is the least of its worries.
So I think fixing this is really a waste of time.  But whatever.

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