Re: [PATCH 0/6] Fix file descriptor leak on user-space processes and cleanup

[André Goddard Rosa]

Hi, Andrew!

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:04:22 -0300 Andr__ Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Fix a file descriptor leak on user-space processes and perform a cleanup,
>> reducing the code size:
>> text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>> 9949      72      16   10037    2735 ipc/mqueue-BEFORE.o
>> 9885      72      16    9973    26f5 ipc/mqueue-AFTER.o
>>
>> Andr__ Goddard Rosa (6):
>>   mqueue: remove unneeded info->messages initialization
>>   mqueue: apply mathematics distributivity on mq_bytes calculation
>>   mqueue: simplify do_open() error handling
>>   mqueue: only set error codes if they are really necessary
>>   mqueue: fix typo "failues" -> "failures"
>>   mqueue: fix mq_open() file descriptor leak on user-space processes
>
> Fixing the leak is far more important than the other five patches, and
> we'll want to backport the leak fix into earlier kernels.  So the
> bugfix patch should have been the first in the series!

Sure, thank you for that, I'll consider your good advice.

> So I've reordered the patches in that fashion and shall tag "mqueue:
> fix mq_open() file descriptor leak on user-space processes" as needing
> -stable backporting.
>
> The patches apply and build OK with that reordering, but please do
> double-check it, thanks.
>

I have double checked and they look good; thanks for the follow-up
patch pleasing checkpatch.
:)

Do I need to send another patch adding the Acked-by's or is it done by
email system automatically?

Best regards,
André
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