fs: Preserve error code in get_empty_filp(), part 2

Allocating a file structure in function get_empty_filp() might fail because
of several reasons:
 - not enough memory for file structures
 - operation is not allowed
 - user is over its limit

Currently the function returns NULL in all cases and we loose the exact
reason of the error. All callers of get_empty_filp() assume that the function
can fail with ENFILE only.

Return error through pointer. Change all callers to preserve this error code.

[AV: cleaned up a bit, carved the get_empty_filp() part out into a separate commit
(things remaining here deal with alloc_file()), removed pipe(2) behaviour change]

Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
This commit is contained in:
Anatol Pomozov 2012-09-12 20:11:55 -07:00 • committed by Al Viro
commit 39b6525274
8 changed files with 19 additions and 22 deletions

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@ -1037,13 +1037,13 @@ int create_pipe_files(struct file **res, int flags)
err = -ENFILE;
f = alloc_file(&path, FMODE_WRITE, &write_pipefifo_fops);
if (!f)
if (IS_ERR(f))
goto err_dentry;
f->f_flags = O_WRONLY | (flags & (O_NONBLOCK | O_DIRECT));
res[0] = alloc_file(&path, FMODE_READ, &read_pipefifo_fops);
if (!res[0])
if (IS_ERR(res[0]))
goto err_file;
path_get(&path);