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Message-Id: <20190612155231.19448-1-andrealmeid@collabora.com>
Date:   Wed, 12 Jun 2019 12:52:30 -0300
From:   André Almeida <andrealmeid@...labora.com>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, catalin.marinas@....com,
        kernel@...labora.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        André Almeida <andrealmeid@...labora.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: kmemleak: change error at _write when kmemleak is disabled

According to POSIX, EBUSY means that the "device or resource is busy",
and this can lead to people thinking that the file
`/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak/` is somehow locked or being used by other
process. Change this error code to a more appropriate one.

Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@...labora.com>
---
Hello,

This time I've added the mailing list, not only the maintainers.

Changes in v2:
- Remove pr_error.
- Replace EINVAL for EPERM, since the command isn't invalid, in fact, the
user don't have the permission to trigger commands when kmemleak is
disabled.
- Reword the commit message to be clearer the rationale behind the
patch.

 mm/kmemleak.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index 9dd581d11565..848333a591fa 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -1866,7 +1866,7 @@ static ssize_t kmemleak_write(struct file *file, const char __user *user_buf,
 	}
 
 	if (!kmemleak_enabled) {
-		ret = -EBUSY;
+		ret = -EPERM;
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-- 
2.22.0