From 39b652527457452f09b35044fb4f8b3b0eabafdf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anatol Pomozov Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:11:55 -0700 Subject: fs: Preserve error code in get_empty_filp(), part 2 Allocating a file structure in function get_empty_filp() might fail because of several reasons: - not enough memory for file structures - operation is not allowed - user is over its limit Currently the function returns NULL in all cases and we loose the exact reason of the error. All callers of get_empty_filp() assume that the function can fail with ENFILE only. Return error through pointer. Change all callers to preserve this error code. [AV: cleaned up a bit, carved the get_empty_filp() part out into a separate commit (things remaining here deal with alloc_file()), removed pipe(2) behaviour change] Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- ipc/shm.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'ipc/shm.c') diff --git a/ipc/shm.c b/ipc/shm.c index 8c9402d298a0..de389e639e7e 100644 --- a/ipc/shm.c +++ b/ipc/shm.c @@ -1042,7 +1042,8 @@ long do_shmat(int shmid, char __user *shmaddr, int shmflg, ulong *raddr, is_file_hugepages(shp->shm_file) ? &shm_file_operations_huge : &shm_file_operations); - if (!file) + err = PTR_ERR(file); + if (IS_ERR(file)) goto out_free; file->private_data = sfd; -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b