[PATCH 2/2] updated filesystem auditing patches for lspp test kernel

Serge E. Hallyn serue at us.ibm.com
Mon Apr 10 17:56:26 UTC 2006


Hard to give this a meaningful review - particularly the first patch,
a large part of which seemed to be moving functionality from one file to
another.  But slowly reading along, at least this smells like an error:

Quoting Amy Griffis (amy.griffis at hp.com):
> +/* Initialize a watch entry. */
> +static inline struct audit_watch *audit_init_watch(char *path)
> +{
> +	struct audit_watch *watch;
> +
> +	watch = kzalloc(sizeof(*watch), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (unlikely(!watch))
> +		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
...
> +	watch = audit_init_watch(path);
> +	if (unlikely(IS_ERR(watch)))
> +		return PTR_ERR(watch);

Ok, but

> +	new = audit_init_watch(path);
> +	if (unlikely(!new)) {
> +		kfree(path);
> +		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> +	}

not ok

-serge




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