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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fs/9p/: don't treat error as status value in file locking
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On 06/22/2014 07:44 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> When trying to lock a file we didn't properly handle the case where a
> failure in p9_client_lock_dotl() occurs and treated the status value
> as valid instead of discarding it due to the error.
>
> This would usually trigger a BUG() since the status value would
> just be stack garbage.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
> ---
> fs/9p/vfs_file.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/9p/vfs_file.c b/fs/9p/vfs_file.c
> index 520c11c..06077f3 100644
> --- a/fs/9p/vfs_file.c
> +++ b/fs/9p/vfs_file.c
> @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ static int v9fs_file_do_lock(struct file *filp, int cmd, struct file_lock *fl)
> for (;;) {
> res = p9_client_lock_dotl(fid, &flock, &status);
> if (res < 0)
> - break;
> + return res;
>
> if (status != P9_LOCK_BLOCKED)
> break;
>



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