[PATCH] proc: inode number fixlet

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Fri Aug 01 2008 - 23:31:25 EST


Ouch, if number taken from IDA is too big, the intent was to signal an
error, not check for overflow and still do overflowing addition.

One still needs 2^28 proc entries to notice this.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
---

fs/proc/generic.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/fs/proc/generic.c
+++ b/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -330,6 +330,7 @@ retry:
spin_lock(&proc_inum_lock);
ida_remove(&proc_inum_ida, i);
spin_unlock(&proc_inum_lock);
+ return 0;
}
return PROC_DYNAMIC_FIRST + i;
}

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