BTW, looking through the code related to struct net lifetime rules has caught something else: struct net *get_net_ns_by_fd(int fd) { ... file = proc_ns_fget(fd); if (!file) goto out; ei = PROC_I(file->f_dentry->d_inode); while in proc_ns_fget() we have two return ERR_PTR(...) and not a single path that would return NULL. The other caller of proc_ns_fget() treats ERR_PTR() correctly... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- [I don't know which tree should that go through; I'm throwing that into vfs-2.6 #for-linus, but if networking folks prefer that to go through their tree...] diff --git a/net/core/net_namespace.c b/net/core/net_namespace.c index 6c6b86d..e41e511 100644 --- a/net/core/net_namespace.c +++ b/net/core/net_namespace.c @@ -310,19 +310,17 @@ struct net *get_net_ns_by_fd(int fd) struct file *file; struct net *net; - net = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); file = proc_ns_fget(fd); - if (!file) - goto out; + if (IS_ERR(file)) + return ERR_CAST(file); ei = PROC_I(file->f_dentry->d_inode); - if (ei->ns_ops != &netns_operations) - goto out; + if (ei->ns_ops == &netns_operations) + net = get_net(ei->ns); + else + net = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); - net = get_net(ei->ns); -out: - if (file) - fput(file); + fput(file); return net; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html