linux-kernel - Re: [patch 20/24] perfmon: system calls interface

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Date:	Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:11:44 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	eranian@...glemail.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	x86@...nel.org, andi@...stfloor.org, eranian@...il.com,
	sfr@...b.auug.org.au
Subject: Re: [patch 20/24] perfmon: system calls interface


* eranian@...glemail.com <eranian@...glemail.com> wrote:

> +/*
> + * unlike the other perfmon system calls, this one returns a file descriptor
> + * or a value < 0 in case of error, very much like open() or socket()
> + */
> +asmlinkage long sys_pfm_create(int flags, struct pfarg_sinfo __user *ureq)
> +{
> +	struct pfm_context *new_ctx;
> +	struct pfarg_sinfo sif;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	PFM_DBG("flags=0x%x sif=%p", flags, ureq);
> +
> +	if (perfmon_disabled)
> +		return -ENOSYS;

another gem. we check flags:

> +	if (flags) {
> +		PFM_DBG("no flags accepted yet");
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	}

then we pass them into __pfm_create_context():

> +	ret = __pfm_create_context(flags, &sif, &new_ctx);

where we check the flag _again_:

+       /* no context flags supported yet */
+       if (ctx_flags)
+               goto error_alloc;

btw., 'error_alloc' is misnamed: that label is not used for allocation 
failure in this branch.

	Ingo
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