Re: One more unlock missing in error case

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Sat Feb 04 2006 - 20:44:24 EST


On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 04:08:30PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This patch is needed to in addition to the other unlocking fix which is
> > already applied. It should be obvious that the system will deadlock in
> > case this isn't done.
>
> hmm. How's about we undo that goto tangle while we're there?
>...

The fput_unlock_fail label change looks good, but IMHO moving of retval
settings out of the if's makes the code less readable.

cu
Adrian

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