linux-kernel - Re: file locking fix for 3.2

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Date:	Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:18:12 -0500
From:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: file locking fix for 3.2

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 10:37:56AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> I'm committing the appended version instead. It removes all the games with 
> IS_ERR(), and just does the checking at the allocation point, the way the 
> other lease_alloc() user does too.
> 
> Holler if you see something odd in there..

Looks fine to me.

> @@ -1284,8 +1280,7 @@ restart:
>  
>  out:
>  	unlock_flocks();
> -	if (!IS_ERR(new_fl))
> -		locks_free_lock(new_fl);
> +	locks_free_lock(new_fl);
>  	return error;
>  }
>  

(And, oops, I missed that last check--thanks for catching it.)

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