I don't see why this should print warnings instead of properly unrolling allocations and returning an appropriate error. It's actually leaking resources. WARN kept on EINVAL case but the leak is fixed there as well. to: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> to: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Debabrata Banerjee <dbanerje@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/generic.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/proc/generic.c b/fs/proc/generic.c index 317b726..89b20cc 100644 --- a/fs/proc/generic.c +++ b/fs/proc/generic.c @@ -304,6 +304,7 @@ static int proc_register(struct proc_dir_entry * dir, struct proc_dir_entry * dp dp->proc_iops = &proc_file_inode_operations; } else { WARN_ON(1); + proc_free_inum(dp->low_ino); return -EINVAL; } @@ -311,9 +312,13 @@ static int proc_register(struct proc_dir_entry * dir, struct proc_dir_entry * dp for (tmp = dir->subdir; tmp; tmp = tmp->next) if (strcmp(tmp->name, dp->name) == 0) { - WARN(1, "proc_dir_entry '%s/%s' already registered\n", - dir->name, dp->name); - break; + spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock); + + if (S_ISDIR(dp->mode)) + dir->nlink--; + + proc_free_inum(dp->low_ino); + return -EEXIST; } dp->next = dir->subdir; -- 2.1.2 -- 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