Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:51:52 +0100
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien_Dugu=E9?= <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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       Jean Pierre Dion <jean-pierre.dion@bull.net>,
       Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 5/5][AIO] - Add listio syscall support
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On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:50:47 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:55:54 +0100
> S?bastien Dugu? <sebastien.dugue@bull.net> wrote:
> 
> > +asmlinkage long
> > +compat_sys_lio_submit(aio_context_t ctx_id, int mode, int nr, u32 __user *iocb,
> > +		struct compat_sigevent __user *sig_user)
> > +{
> > +	struct kioctx *ctx;
> > +	struct lio_event *lio = NULL;
> > +	struct sigevent __user *event = NULL;
> > +	long ret = 0;
> > +
> > +	if (unlikely(nr < 0))
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > +	if (unlikely(!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, iocb, (nr * sizeof(u32)))))
> > +		return -EFAULT;
> > +
> > +	ctx = lookup_ioctx(ctx_id);
> > +	if (unlikely(!ctx))
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > +	if (sig_user) {
> > +		struct sigevent kevent;
> > +		event = compat_alloc_user_space(sizeof(struct sigevent));
> > +		if (get_compat_sigevent(&kevent, sig_user) ||
> > +			copy_to_user(event, &kevent, sizeof(struct sigevent)))
> > +			return -EFAULT;
> 
> I think we just leaked a ref against the ioctx.

  Right, will fix.

> 
> That's two.  Please re-review the whole patchset for leaks like this.

  Well, this particular patch did not have much review so far (contrary to the
the other patches in the patchset). That's why I posted it mainly
for comments and not expecting it to make it to -mm so soon.

> 
> Please also do not do returns from the middle of functions like this.  It's just
> asking for resource leaks, either now or in the future.
> 

  Argh, yes. Who wrote that code? ;-)

  Thanks,

  S?bastien.


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