linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] percpu fixes for 2.6.32-rc6

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Message-ID: <4AF9C2B2.3050604@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:44:50 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] percpu fixes for 2.6.32-rc6

Tejun Heo wrote:
> The return value is wrong but it wouldn't lead to oops.

Correction: It may lead to oops due to wrong end-of-list condition and
I just remembered that I was thinking about it when I was modifying
the locking and adding the switch block there and then I forgot to
actually update the return value of the extend function.  So, yeah,
three way return value sucks big time.

-- 
tejun
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