linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 19/23] sysctl: Call sysctl_head

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Message-ID: <20200702051512.GA30361@lst.de>
Date:   Thu, 2 Jul 2020 07:15:12 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/23] sysctl: Call sysctl_head_finish on error

On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 01:32:40AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 10:09:47PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>
> > 
> > This error path returned directly instead of calling sysctl_head_finish().
> > 
> > Fixes: ef9d965bc8b6 ("sysctl: reject gigantic reads/write to sysctl files")
> > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>
> 
> I think this one needs to go to Linus before 5.8, not get stuck in the
> middle of a large patch series.

I've only kept it here because it didn't show up in Linus tree yet.
If you send it and it gets picked up I can trivially drop it.