fs: Preserve error code in get_empty_filp(), part 2
Allocating a file structure in function get_empty_filp() might fail because
of several reasons:
- not enough memory for file structures
- operation is not allowed
- user is over its limit
Currently the function returns NULL in all cases and we loose the exact
reason of the error. All callers of get_empty_filp() assume that the function
can fail with ENFILE only.
Return error through pointer. Change all callers to preserve this error code.
[AV: cleaned up a bit, carved the get_empty_filp() part out into a separate commit
(things remaining here deal with alloc_file()), removed pipe(2) behaviour change]
Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
index cd76d4f..aa07d36 100644
--- a/fs/file_table.c
+++ b/fs/file_table.c
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@
file = get_empty_filp();
if (IS_ERR(file))
- return NULL;
+ return file;
file->f_path = *path;
file->f_mapping = path->dentry->d_inode->i_mapping;