linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/34] VFS: Make clone_mnt() and copy

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Date:	Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:41:24 -0400
From:	Valerie Aurora <vaurora@...hat.com>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>, ram@...hat.com
Cc:	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, hch@...radead.org, agruen@...e.de,
	npiggin@...nel.dk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/34] VFS: Make clone_mnt() and copy_tree() return error codes

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:51:30AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Valerie Aurora wrote:
> > copy_tree() can theoretically fail in a case other than ENOMEM, but
> > always returns NULL which is interpreted by callers as -ENOMEM.
> > Convert to return an explicit error.  Convert clone_mnt() for
> > consistency and because union mounts will add new error cases.
> 
> I think it makes sense to push this fix to 2.6.37 independently of the
> other patches.
> 
> Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>

I'm certainly not going to argue, but I spent an hour trying to
trigger the non-ENOMEM case (below) and failed - maybe it's
unreachable?

> > @@ -1212,11 +1216,12 @@ struct vfsmount *copy_tree(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry,
> >  	struct path path;
> >  
> >  	if (!(flag & CL_COPY_ALL) && IS_MNT_UNBINDABLE(mnt))
> > -		return NULL;
> > +		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);

Ram, do you remember how this worked?

-VAL
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