Re: [PATCH 6/9] sysctl: Call sysctl_head_finish on error

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On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 12:17:01PM +0000, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 09:58:33AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > This error path returned directly instead of calling sysctl_head_finish().
> 
> And if the commit log can say why this was bad. Found through code
> inspection from what I recall right?

I don't know why it's bad, it's just different from every other exit
path from this function, and it's user-triggerable, so it just needs to
get fixed.



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