On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 03:00:23PM +0800, Jiasheng Jiang wrote: > As the possible failure of the allocation, the ida_simple_get() will > return error number. > And then ctx->id will be printed in eventfd_show_fdinfo(). > Therefore, it should be better to check it and return error if fails, > like the other allocation. > > Fixes: b556db17b0e7 ("eventfd: present id to userspace via fdinfo") > Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/eventfd.c | 4 ++++ > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/fs/eventfd.c b/fs/eventfd.c > index 3627dd7d25db..5ec1d998f3ac 100644 > --- a/fs/eventfd.c > +++ b/fs/eventfd.c > @@ -424,6 +424,10 @@ static int do_eventfd(unsigned int count, int flags) > ctx->count = count; > ctx->flags = flags; > ctx->id = ida_simple_get(&eventfd_ida, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL); > + if (ctx->id) { > + fd = ctx->id; > + goto err; > + } Shouldn't this be 'ctx->id < 0'? - Eric