On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 12:33 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 16:37 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: > > > +int register_uprobe(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, > > > + struct uprobe_consumer *consumer) > > > +{ > > > + struct uprobe *uprobe; > > > + int ret = -EINVAL; > > > + > > > + if (!consumer || consumer->next) > > > + return ret; > > > + > > > + inode = igrab(inode); > > > > So why are you dealing with !consumer but not with !inode? and why > > does > > it make sense to allow !consumer at all? > > > > > I am not sure if I got your comment correctly. > > I do check for inode just after the igrab. No you don't, you check the return value of igrab(), but you crash hard when someone calls register_uprobe(.inode=NULL). > I am actually not dealing with !consumer. > If the consumer is NULL, then we dont have any handler to run so why > would we want to register such a probe? Why allow someone calling register_uprobe(.consumer=NULL) to begin with? That doesn't make any sense. > Also if consumer->next is Non-NULL, that means that this consumer was > already used. Reusing the consumer, can result in consumers list getting > broken into two. Yeah, although at that point why be nice about it? Just but a WARN_ON() in or so. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href