Re: [PATCH][next] io_uring: fix missing error return when percpu_ref_init fails

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On 12/20/19 4:49 PM, Colin Ian King wrote:
> On 20/12/2019 23:48, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 12/20/19 4:33 PM, Colin King wrote:
>>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Currently when the call to percpu_ref_init fails ctx->file_data is
>>> set to null and because there is a missing return statement the
>>> following statement dereferences this null pointer causing an oops.
>>> Fix this by adding the missing -ENOMEM return to avoid the oops.
>>
>> Nice, thanks! I'm guessing I didn't have the necessary magic debug
>> options to allow failure injection for failing.
> 
> Fortunately we have Coverity to the rescue :-)

Indeed!

-- 
Jens Axboe




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