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Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] io_uring: fix missing error return when
 percpu_ref_init fails
To:     Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
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From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Date:   Fri, 20 Dec 2019 16:48:48 -0700
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On 12/20/19 4:33 PM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> 
> Currently when the call to percpu_ref_init fails ctx->file_data is
> set to null and because there is a missing return statement the
> following statement dereferences this null pointer causing an oops.
> Fix this by adding the missing -ENOMEM return to avoid the oops.

Nice, thanks! I'm guessing I didn't have the necessary magic debug
options to allow failure injection for failing.


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Jens Axboe