Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc2-mm2 2/7] v9fs: VFS file, dentry, and directory operations (2.0.2)

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Jul 14 2005 - 15:02:01 EST


> @@ -383,9 +379,10 @@ v9fs_file_write(struct file *filp, const
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> ret = copy_from_user(buffer, data, count);
> - if (ret)
> + if (ret) {
> dprintk(DEBUG_ERROR, "Problem copying from user\n");
> - else
> + return -EFAULT;
> + } else
> ret = v9fs_write(filp, buffer, count, offset);
>
> kfree(buffer);

Aren't you leaking buffer in the error case? Also we Linux people really
hate an else clause when the if block contains a return statement ;-)

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