On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 08:43:31AM -0800, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> Minor refactoring, to get rid of some duplicated code
A minor nit:
> spin_lock_irq(&ctx->ctx_lock);
> - ret = -EAGAIN;
> +
> kiocb = lookup_kiocb(ctx, iocb, key);
> - if (kiocb && kiocb->ki_cancel) {
> - cancel = kiocb->ki_cancel;
> - kiocb->ki_users ++;
> - kiocbSetCancelled(kiocb);
> - } else
> - cancel = NULL;
...
> - if (NULL != cancel) {
> - } else
> - ret = -EINVAL;
In the old code it'd return -EINVAL for a NULL kiocb, despite that
misleading unused EAGAIN.
> + if (kiocb)
> + ret = kiocb_cancel(ctx, kiocb, &res);
> + else
> + ret = -EAGAIN;
But now it returns -EAGAIN.
I bet we want to err on the side of caution and maintain behaviour, no
matter how funky.
- z
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