Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752308AbZIGVJ4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2009 17:09:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751917AbZIGVJz (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2009 17:09:55 -0400 Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.141]:53193 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751787AbZIGVJy (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2009 17:09:54 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 14:14:21 -0700 From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: serue@us.ibm.com, Oren Laadan , "Eric W. Biederman" , Alexey Dobriyan , Pavel Emelyanov , Andrew Morton , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mikew@google.com, mingo@elte.hu, hpa@zytor.com, Containers , sukadev@us.ibm.com Subject: [RFC][v5][PATCH 2/8]: Have alloc_pidmap() return actual error code Message-ID: <20090907211421.GB6685@us.ibm.com> References: <20090907211302.GA5892@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090907211302.GA5892@us.ibm.com> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.32 on an i486 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2626 Lines: 94 Subject: [RFC][v5][PATCH 2/8]: Have alloc_pidmap() return actual error code alloc_pidmap() can fail either because all pid numbers are in use or because memory allocation failed. With support for setting a specific pid number, alloc_pidmap() would also fail if either the given pid number is invalid or in use. Rather than have callers assume -ENOMEM, have alloc_pidmap() return the actual error. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Reviewed-by: Oren Laadan --- kernel/fork.c | 5 +++-- kernel/pid.c | 9 ++++++--- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/kernel/fork.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/fork.c 2009-09-07 13:10:39.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6/kernel/fork.c 2009-09-07 13:11:39.000000000 -0700 @@ -1110,10 +1110,11 @@ goto bad_fork_cleanup_io; if (pid != &init_struct_pid) { - retval = -ENOMEM; pid = alloc_pid(p->nsproxy->pid_ns); - if (!pid) + if (IS_ERR(pid)) { + retval = PTR_ERR(pid); goto bad_fork_cleanup_io; + } if (clone_flags & CLONE_NEWPID) { retval = pid_ns_prepare_proc(p->nsproxy->pid_ns); Index: linux-2.6/kernel/pid.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/pid.c 2009-09-07 13:11:30.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6/kernel/pid.c 2009-09-07 13:11:39.000000000 -0700 @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static int alloc_pidmap(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns) { int i, offset, max_scan, pid, last = pid_ns->last_pid; - int rc; + int rc = -EAGAIN; struct pidmap *map; pid = last + 1; @@ -189,12 +189,14 @@ } else { map = &pid_ns->pidmap[0]; offset = RESERVED_PIDS; - if (unlikely(last == offset)) + if (unlikely(last == offset)) { + rc = -EAGAIN; break; + } } pid = mk_pid(pid_ns, map, offset); } - return -1; + return rc; } int next_pidmap(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns, int last) @@ -263,8 +265,10 @@ struct upid *upid; pid = kmem_cache_alloc(ns->pid_cachep, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!pid) + if (!pid) { + pid = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); goto out; + } tmp = ns; for (i = ns->level; i >= 0; i--) { @@ -299,7 +303,7 @@ free_pidmap(pid->numbers + i); kmem_cache_free(ns->pid_cachep, pid); - pid = NULL; + pid = ERR_PTR(nr); goto out; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/