The patch titled
Subject: proc: return -ENOMEM when inode allocation failed
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
proc-return-enomem-when-inode-allocation-failed.patch
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From: yan <clouds.yan@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: proc: return -ENOMEM when inode allocation failed
If proc_get_inode() returns NULL then presumably it encountered memory
exhaustion. proc_lookup_de() should return -ENOMEM in this case, not
-EINVAL.
Signed-off-by: yan <clouds.yan@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/proc/generic.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN fs/proc/generic.c~proc-return-enomem-when-inode-allocation-failed fs/proc/generic.c
--- a/fs/proc/generic.c~proc-return-enomem-when-inode-allocation-failed
+++ a/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ struct dentry *proc_lookup_de(struct pro
if (!memcmp(dentry->d_name.name, de->name, de->namelen)) {
pde_get(de);
spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);
- error = -EINVAL;
+ error = -ENOMEM;
inode = proc_get_inode(dir->i_sb, de);
goto out_unlock;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from clouds.yan@xxxxxxxxx are
proc-return-enomem-when-inode-allocation-failed.patch
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