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SubjectRe: [RFC v4][PATCH 9/9] File descriprtors (restore)
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On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 21:49 -0400, Oren Laadan wrote:
>
> Dave Hansen wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 03:42 -0400, Oren Laadan wrote:
> >> +static int cr_close_all_fds(struct files_struct *files)
> >> +{
> >> + int *fdtable;
> >> + int n;
> >> +
> >> + do {
> >> + n = cr_scan_fds(files, &fdtable);
> >> + if (n < 0)
> >> + return n;
> >> + while (n--)
> >> + sys_close(fdtable[n]);
> >> + kfree(fdtable);
> >> + } while (n != -1);
> >> +
> >> + return 0;
> >> +}
> >
> > This needs to use an ERR_PTR(). It will save using the double-pointer.
>
> I suppose you refer to the call to cr_scan_fds(): either 'fdtable'
> or 'n' will have to pass-by-reference. Is it that you prefer it to be
> fdtable = cr_scan_fds(files, &n);
> ?

I was misreading the use of 'n'. Can you really not use close_files()
for this operation? You'd need to add some locking around it, but I
think it does what you need here.

-- Dave



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