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* [PATCH 1/2] proc: don't do dummy rcu_read_lock/rcu_read_unlock on error path
@ 2012-04-07 19:01 Alexey Dobriyan
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From: Alexey Dobriyan @ 2012-04-07 19:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm; +Cc: linux-kernel

rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() is nop for TINY_RCU,
but is not a nop for, say, PREEMPT_RCU.

proc_fill_cache() is called without RCU lock,
there is no need to lock/unlock on error path,
simply jump out of the loop.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
---

 fs/proc/base.c |   13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -1943,21 +1943,22 @@ static int proc_readfd_common(struct file * filp, void * dirent,
 			     fd++, filp->f_pos++) {
 				char name[PROC_NUMBUF];
 				int len;
+				int rv;
 
 				if (!fcheck_files(files, fd))
 					continue;
 				rcu_read_unlock();
 
 				len = snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "%d", fd);
-				if (proc_fill_cache(filp, dirent, filldir,
-						    name, len, instantiate,
-						    p, &fd) < 0) {
-					rcu_read_lock();
-					break;
-				}
+				rv = proc_fill_cache(filp, dirent, filldir,
+						     name, len, instantiate, p,
+						     &fd);
+				if (rv < 0)
+					goto out_fd_loop;
 				rcu_read_lock();
 			}
 			rcu_read_unlock();
+out_fd_loop:
 			put_files_struct(files);
 	}
 out:

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