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Date:	Thu, 22 May 2008 17:57:05 +0200
From:	Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] vfs: open_exec cleanup

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 07:53:34AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:01:49AM +0200, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> > open_exec is needlessly indented, calls ERR_PTR with 0 argument
> > (which is not valid errno) and jumps into middle of function
> > just to return value.
> > So clean it up a bit.
> 
> Still looks rather messy.  See below for a better version.

looks much better, thanks
Reviewed-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@...il.com>
 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/fs/exec.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/exec.c	2008-05-19 07:45:18.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6/fs/exec.c	2008-05-19 07:53:17.000000000 +0200
> @@ -654,38 +654,40 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(setup_arg_pages);
>  struct file *open_exec(const char *name)
>  {
>  	struct nameidata nd;
> -	int err;
>  	struct file *file;
> +	int err;
>  
> -	err = path_lookup_open(AT_FDCWD, name, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &nd, FMODE_READ|FMODE_EXEC);
> -	file = ERR_PTR(err);
> +	err = path_lookup_open(AT_FDCWD, name, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &nd,
> +				FMODE_READ|FMODE_EXEC);
> +	if (err)
> +		goto out;
>  
> -	if (!err) {
> -		struct inode *inode = nd.path.dentry->d_inode;
> -		file = ERR_PTR(-EACCES);
> -		if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {
> -			int err = vfs_permission(&nd, MAY_EXEC);
> -			file = ERR_PTR(err);
> -			if (!err) {
> -				file = nameidata_to_filp(&nd,
> -							O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE);
> -				if (!IS_ERR(file)) {
> -					err = deny_write_access(file);
> -					if (err) {
> -						fput(file);
> -						file = ERR_PTR(err);
> -					}
> -				}
> -out:
> -				return file;
> -			}
> -		}
> -		release_open_intent(&nd);
> -		path_put(&nd.path);
> +	err = -EACCES;
> +	if (!S_ISREG(nd.path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
> +		goto out_path_put;
> +
> +	err = vfs_permission(&nd, MAY_EXEC);
> +	if (err)
> +		goto out_path_put;
> +
> +	file = nameidata_to_filp(&nd, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE);
> +	if (IS_ERR(file))
> +		return file;
> +
> +	err = deny_write_access(file);
> +	if (err) {
> +		fput(file);
> +		goto out;
>  	}
> -	goto out;
> -}
>  
> +	return file;
> +
> + out_path_put:
> +	release_open_intent(&nd);
> +	path_put(&nd.path);
> + out:
> +	return ERR_PTR(err);
> +}
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(open_exec);
>  
>  int kernel_read(struct file *file, unsigned long offset,
> 
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