The patch titled
fdtable: Delete pointless code in dup_fd()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
fdtable-delete-pointless-code-in-dup_fd.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: fdtable: Delete pointless code in dup_fd()
From: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
The dup_fd() function creates a new files_struct and fdtable embedded inside
that files_struct, and then possibly expands the fdtable using expand_files().
The out_release error path is invoked when expand_files() returns an error
code. However, when this attempt to expand fails, the fdtable is left in its
original embedded form, so it is pointless to try to free the associated
fdarray and fdsets.
Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/fork.c | 5 +----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff -puN kernel/fork.c~fdtable-delete-pointless-code-in-dup_fd kernel/fork.c
--- a/kernel/fork.c~fdtable-delete-pointless-code-in-dup_fd
+++ a/kernel/fork.c
@@ -727,14 +727,11 @@ static struct files_struct *dup_fd(struc
memset(&new_fdt->close_on_exec->fds_bits[start], 0, left);
}
-out:
return newf;
out_release:
- free_fdset (new_fdt->close_on_exec, new_fdt->max_fdset);
- free_fdset (new_fdt->open_fds, new_fdt->max_fdset);
- free_fd_array(new_fdt->fd, new_fdt->max_fds);
kmem_cache_free(files_cachep, newf);
+out:
return NULL;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from vlobanov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
fdtable-delete-pointless-code-in-dup_fd.patch
fdtable-make-fdarray-and-fdsets-equal-in-size.patch
fdtable-remove-the-free_files-field.patch
fdtable-implement-new-pagesize-based-fdtable-allocation-scheme.patch
fdtable-make-fdarray-and-fdsets-equal-in-size-slim.patch
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