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Message-ID: <20190613122243.GQ28951@C02TF0J2HF1T.local>
Date:   Thu, 13 Jun 2019 13:22:43 +0100
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     André Almeida <andrealmeid@...labora.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel@...labora.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: kmemleak: change error at _write when
 kmemleak is disabled

On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 12:52:30PM -0300, André Almeida wrote:
> 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>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>