Re: [PATCH 19/23] sysctl: Call sysctl_head_finish on error

[Al Viro]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 07:15:12AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 01:32:40AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 10:09:47PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > This error path returned directly instead of calling sysctl_head_finish().
> > > 
> > > Fixes: ef9d965bc8b6 ("sysctl: reject gigantic reads/write to sysctl files")
> > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > I think this one needs to go to Linus before 5.8, not get stuck in the
> > middle of a large patch series.
> 
> I've only kept it here because it didn't show up in Linus tree yet.
> If you send it and it gets picked up I can trivially drop it.

I'll send it tonight, if it's not there yet...