[Devel] Re: [RFC v14-rc2][PATCH 06/29] Dump memory address space
Oren Laadan
orenl at cs.columbia.edu
Mon Apr 6 21:57:44 PDT 2009
Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> One comment below.
Thanks .. (and the other reviews as well - I fixed all of them)
[...]
> | +static char *
> | +cr_fill_fname(struct path *path, struct path *root, char *buf, int *n)
> | +{
> | + struct path tmp = *root;
> | + char *fname;
> | +
> | + BUG_ON(!buf);
> | + spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
> | + fname = __d_path(path, &tmp, buf, *n);
> | + spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
> | + if (!IS_ERR(fname))
> | + *n = (buf + (*n) - fname);
> | + /*
> | + * FIXME: if __d_path() changed these, it must have stepped out of
> | + * init's namespace. Since currently we require a unified namespace
> | + * within the container: simply fail.
> | + */
> | + if (tmp.mnt != root->mnt || tmp.dentry != root->dentry)
> | + fname = ERR_PTR(-EBADF);
> |
>
> Shouldn't this be under if (!IS_ERR(fname)) ? 'tmp' may be uninitialized
> if __d_path() fails with ENAMETOOLONG. Even otherwise, it may be better
> to report the error from __dpath() first ?
>
True, fixed.
Oren.
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