On 11/3/07, Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted text
>  static int smk_open_load(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>  {
> -       return seq_open(file, &load_seq_ops);
> +       if ((file->f_flags & O_ACCMODE) == O_RDONLY)
> +               return seq_open(file, &load_seq_ops);
> +
> +       if (down_interruptible(&smack_write_sem))
> +               return -ERESTARTSYS;
> +
> +       load_state = kzalloc(sizeof(struct smack_load_state), GFP_KERNEL);
> +       if (!load_state)
> +               return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +       return 0;
> +}

Is it right to do the kzalloc with the semaphore being held? Will the
lock be held forever If kzalloc failed and -ENOMEM was returned ?

Thanks,

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Ahmed S. Darwish
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Blog: http://darwish-07.blogspot.com
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