linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: restore the old set_task_ioprio() behaviour wrt PF

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Date:   Tue, 29 Mar 2022 08:55:35 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Cc:     axboe@...nel.dk, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: restore the old set_task_ioprio() behaviour wrt
 PF_EXITING

>  		task_lock(task);
>  		if (task->flags & PF_EXITING) {
> -			err = -ESRCH;
>  			kmem_cache_free(iocontext_cachep, ioc);
>  			goto out;

Please add a commnt here why we are not returning an error, otherwise
this is just getting "fixed" over and over again.