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 --- mm/shmem.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index 814d5546cb35..abf07f754277 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -2913,10 +2913,10 @@ struct file *shmem_file_setup(const char *name, loff_t size, unsigned long flags goto put_dentry; #endif - error = -ENFILE; file = alloc_file(&path, FMODE_WRITE | FMODE_READ, &shmem_file_operations); - if (!file) + error = PTR_ERR(file); + if (IS_ERR(file)) goto put_dentry; return file; -- cgit v1.2.3