Re: [PATCH] IPC: fix error case when idr-cache is empty in ipcget()

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:32:22 +0200
Pierre Peiffer <Pierre.Peiffer@bull.net> wrote:

> @@ -373,7 +376,7 @@ int ipcget_public(struct ipc_namespace *
>  	struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcp;
>  	int flg = params->flg;
>  	int err;
> -
> +retry:
>  	err = idr_pre_get(&ids->ipcs_idr, GFP_KERNEL);
>  
>  	mutex_lock(&ids->mutex);
> @@ -406,6 +409,9 @@ int ipcget_public(struct ipc_namespace *
>  	}
>  	mutex_unlock(&ids->mutex);
>  
> +	if (err == -EAGAIN)
> +		goto retry;
> +
>  	return err;
>  }

Not pretty, is it?  The idr interface isn't a good one.  But then, any
storage library (aka container class) which allocates memory at insertion
time is a pain to handle in the kernel.

btw, idr_pre_get() should return 0 on success, else an errno - the current
interface is silly.

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