[Linux-cachefs] [PATCH] CacheFiles: Fix error handling in cachefiles_determine_cache_security ()

Romain DEGEZ romain.degez at smartjog.com
Wed May 12 15:32:32 UTC 2010


On Wednesday 12 May 2010 16:34:03 David Howells wrote:


Hi David,

> cachefiles_determine_cache_security() is expected to return with a security
> override in place.  However, if set_create_files_as() fails, we fail to do
> this.  In this case, we should just reinstate the security override that
>  was set by the caller.
> 
> Furthermore, if set_create_files_as() fails, we should dispose of the new
> credentials we were in the process of creating.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>

[...]

By reading the patch comment I'm not sure so I'm asking : 

Is this patch something I should be applying right now to solve/troubleshot my 
current problem ? 

Regards,

-- 
RD




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