Running under very tight memory conditions, I've been getting a strange
EACCES returned by open(...) - strange because it's called as root, the
file exists and isn't immutable. The only point in execution I can see
where this can be returned is in ext2_lookup. As far as I can tell,
iget(...) returns NULL when it can't allocate pages for an inode, but
ext2_lookup takes this as a permissions problem.
It's a simple one line patch, below.
--- linux-2.3.40/fs/ext2/namei.c Fri Jan 28 16:23:32 2000
+++ linux/fs/ext2/namei.c Fri Jan 28 16:40:41 2000
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@
inode = iget(dir->i_sb, ino);
if (!inode)
- return ERR_PTR(-EACCES);
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
}
d_add(dentry, inode);
return NULL;
-- John Ripley, empeg Ltd. http://www.empeg.com- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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