Re: [PATCH 1/3] proc: return -ENOMEM when inode allocation failed

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 17:22:15 +0800
yan yan <clouds.yan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 2012/9/4 Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > On 09/03/2012 10:14 PM, yan wrote:
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: yan <clouds.yan@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> > Please provide a changelog to explain why we need this patch.
> 
> I think the title is self explained.

Given this review feedback, the title alone was obviously insufficient!

I provided the following changelog text:

: If proc_get_inode() returns NULL then presumably it encountered memory
: exhaustion.  proc_lookup_de() should return -ENOMEM in this case, not
: -EINVAL.


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