Re: [RFC v4][PATCH 8/9] File descriprtors (dump)

[Vegard Nossum]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Oren Laadan <orenl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> +       fdlist = kmalloc(max * sizeof(*fdlist), GFP_KERNEL);
> +       if (!fdlist)
> +               return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +       spin_lock(&files->file_lock);
> +       fdt = files_fdtable(files);
> +       for (i = 0; i < fdt->max_fds; i++) {
> +               if (!fcheck_files(files, i))
> +                       continue;
> +               if (n == max) {
> +                       /* fcheck_files() is safe with drop/re-acquire
> +                        * of the lock, as it tests:  fd < max_fds */
> +                       spin_unlock(&files->file_lock);
> +                       max *= 2;
> +                       if (max < 0) {  /* overflow ? */
> +                               n = -EMFILE;
> +                               goto out;
> +                       }
> +                       fdlist = krealloc(fdlist, max, GFP_KERNEL);

Hm, shouldn't this be max * sizeof(*fdlist) like the kmalloc above?


Vegard

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