Re: [bug report] fanotify: fix copy_event_to_user() fid error clean up

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On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 05:01:03PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 12:31:42PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > Smatch is *supposed* to know about the relationship between those two.
> > The bug is actually that Smatch records in the database that create_fd()
> > always fails.  It's a serious bug, and I'm trying to investigate what's
> > going on and I'm sure that I will fix this before the end of the week.
> 
> I'm testing a Smatch fix for this so hopefully it will pushed in a few
> days.

Great!

Well, do let us know what the outcome is post running the Smatch tests
against the copy_event_to_user() function once again...

I do feel as though shuffling things around isn't necessary. Especially
considering the fact that what is current is correct and as you mentioned
this is a perfect oppurtunity to make the tooling better. :)

/M



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