Re: [TRIVIAL] Error checks omitted in init_tmpfs() in mm/tiny-shmem.c

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Matt Mackall wrote:
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 03:56:47AM -0500, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote:
Matt Mackall wrote:
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 12:29:45AM -0500, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote:
The existing code in init_tmpfs() in mm/tiny-shmem.c does not handle the cases when the calls to register_filesystem() and kern_mount() fail. This patch adds those checks.

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A couple more comments..

Signed-off-by: Hareesh Nagarajan <[email protected]>

--- linux-2.6.13.4/mm/tiny-shmem.c	2005-10-10 13:54:29.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.13.4-edit/mm/tiny-shmem.c	2005-10-24 03:43:38.614071000 -0500
@@ -31,12 +31,18 @@
static int __init init_tmpfs(void)
 {
-	register_filesystem(&tmpfs_fs_type);
+	int error;
+
+	error = register_filesystem(&tmpfs_fs_type);
+	BUG_ON(error);

Can we just do BUG_ON(register_filesystem() != 0)?

Strictly speaking, the != 0 is redundant, but as this goes slightly
against the grain of normal usage, it's a good indicator of intent.

It shows intent well. That goes into my book for good programming practices. No more BUG_ON(foo) :)

 #ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS
 	devfs_mk_dir("shm");
 #endif
 	shm_mnt = kern_mount(&tmpfs_fs_type);
-	return 0;
+	BUG_ON(IS_ERR(shm_mnt));
+
+	return error;

We can never return non-zero here. Returning error implies we can, so
it's confusing.

Makes sense again. Patch follows.

Signed-off-by: Hareesh Nagarajan <[email protected]>
--- linux-2.6.13.4/mm/tiny-shmem.c	2005-10-10 13:54:29.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.13.4-edit/mm/tiny-shmem.c	2005-10-24 19:05:28.058897000 -0500
@@ -31,11 +31,14 @@
 
 static int __init init_tmpfs(void)
 {
-	register_filesystem(&tmpfs_fs_type);
+	BUG_ON(register_filesystem(&tmpfs_fs_type) != 0);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS
 	devfs_mk_dir("shm");
 #endif
 	shm_mnt = kern_mount(&tmpfs_fs_type);
+	BUG_ON(IS_ERR(shm_mnt));
+
 	return 0;
 }
 module_init(init_tmpfs)

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