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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-01-10 16:46:03 +0100
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-01-10 17:13:13 +0100
commit0b2c4e39c014219ef73f05ab580c284bf8e6af0a (patch)
tree4447c0dbab25dc209f267c17123845b1d3bb8273 /fs
parentsecurityfs: fix object creation races (diff)
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coda: deal correctly with allocation failure from coda_cnode_makectl()
lookup should fail with ENOMEM, not silently make dentry negative. Switched to saner calling conventions, while we are at it. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/coda/cnode.c21
-rw-r--r--fs/coda/coda_fs_i.h2
-rw-r--r--fs/coda/dir.c4
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/fs/coda/cnode.c b/fs/coda/cnode.c
index 6475877b0763..8af67c9c47dd 100644
--- a/fs/coda/cnode.c
+++ b/fs/coda/cnode.c
@@ -156,19 +156,16 @@ struct inode *coda_fid_to_inode(struct CodaFid *fid, struct super_block *sb)
}
/* the CONTROL inode is made without asking attributes from Venus */
-int coda_cnode_makectl(struct inode **inode, struct super_block *sb)
+struct inode *coda_cnode_makectl(struct super_block *sb)
{
- int error = -ENOMEM;
-
- *inode = new_inode(sb);
- if (*inode) {
- (*inode)->i_ino = CTL_INO;
- (*inode)->i_op = &coda_ioctl_inode_operations;
- (*inode)->i_fop = &coda_ioctl_operations;
- (*inode)->i_mode = 0444;
- error = 0;
+ struct inode *inode = new_inode(sb);
+ if (inode) {
+ inode->i_ino = CTL_INO;
+ inode->i_op = &coda_ioctl_inode_operations;
+ inode->i_fop = &coda_ioctl_operations;
+ inode->i_mode = 0444;
+ return inode;
}
-
- return error;
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
}
diff --git a/fs/coda/coda_fs_i.h b/fs/coda/coda_fs_i.h
index e35071b1de0e..1c17446f1afe 100644
--- a/fs/coda/coda_fs_i.h
+++ b/fs/coda/coda_fs_i.h
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ struct coda_file_info {
int coda_cnode_make(struct inode **, struct CodaFid *, struct super_block *);
struct inode *coda_iget(struct super_block *sb, struct CodaFid *fid, struct coda_vattr *attr);
-int coda_cnode_makectl(struct inode **inode, struct super_block *sb);
+struct inode *coda_cnode_makectl(struct super_block *sb);
struct inode *coda_fid_to_inode(struct CodaFid *fid, struct super_block *sb);
void coda_replace_fid(struct inode *, struct CodaFid *, struct CodaFid *);
diff --git a/fs/coda/dir.c b/fs/coda/dir.c
index 83d2fd8ec24b..df0f9c1b01d3 100644
--- a/fs/coda/dir.c
+++ b/fs/coda/dir.c
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ static struct dentry *coda_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *entry, struc
/* control object, create inode on the fly */
if (coda_isroot(dir) && coda_iscontrol(name, length)) {
- error = coda_cnode_makectl(&inode, dir->i_sb);
+ inode = coda_cnode_makectl(dir->i_sb);
type = CODA_NOCACHE;
goto exit;
}
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ static struct dentry *coda_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *entry, struc
return ERR_PTR(error);
exit:
- if (inode && (type & CODA_NOCACHE))
+ if (inode && !IS_ERR(inode) && (type & CODA_NOCACHE))
coda_flag_inode(inode, C_VATTR | C_PURGE);
return d_splice_alias(inode, entry);