linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] mqueue: fix mq_open() file descriptor leak on user-space processes

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Date:	Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:35:00 +0800
From:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Serge E . Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>,
	Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] mqueue: fix mq_open() file descriptor leak on 
	user-space processes

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:04 PM, André Goddard Rosa
<andre.goddard@...il.com> wrote:
> It can be triggered by the following test program:
>

<snip>

>
> When not running valgrind, user-space program segfaults trying to execute
> strerror(errno). With valgrind, it executes successfully and prints the
> 5 open files: stdin, stdout, stderr, pipe[0] and pipe[1].
>
> Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@...il.com>
> ---

The code has more than just this problem, could you please try
my patch below?

Thanks.

---------------------------->

Clean up the failure path of sys_mq_open().

Reorder the goto labels;
Rename 'upsem' to 'upunlock';
Remove some unused labels;
Fix some wrong goto path.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>

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