Re: [PATCH 1/3] pids: Make alloc_pid return error

[Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>]

On 11/10/2011 10:00 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 11/10, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
>>
>> @@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ struct pid *alloc_pid(struct pid_namespace *ns)
>>  {
>>  	struct pid *pid;
>>  	enum pid_type type;
>> -	int i, nr;
>> +	int i, nr = -ENOMEM;
>>  	struct pid_namespace *tmp;
>>  	struct upid *upid;
> 
> This doesn't look right at first glance... I mean, if
> the first kmem_cache_alloc(ns->pid_cachep) fails, this -ENOMEM
> won't be returned as ERR_PTR().

Yikes! Will fix, thanks!

>> @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ out_free:
>>  		free_pidmap(pid->numbers + i);
>>
>>  	kmem_cache_free(ns->pid_cachep, pid);
>> -	pid = NULL;
>> +	pid = ERR_PTR(nr);
>>  	goto out;
> 
> Off-topic, but with or withoit this patch this "goto out" looks
> strange imho. Why not a simple
> 
> 	-	pid = NULL;
> 	-	goto out;
> 	+	return ERR_PTR(nr);
> 
> instead? But this is minor and subjective, I won't insist.

Hm... OK, I will brush up the error paths a little bit more :)

> Oleg.
> 
> .
>