Re: [PATCH] fcntl returns wrong error code (Updated)

[Christopher Yeoh]

At 2002/3/22 00:58+1100  Christopher Yeoh writes:
> btw Stephen Rothwell pointed out that there is a much neater way to
> achieve the same change. I'll post a new patch in the morning.

This is the updated patch.

--- linux-2.4.18/fs/fcntl.c~	Fri Mar 22 11:54:35 2002
+++ linux-2.4.18/fs/fcntl.c	Fri Mar 22 12:31:18 2002
@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@
 
 	write_lock(&files->file_lock);
 	
+	error = -EINVAL;
+	if (orig_start >= current->rlim[RLIMIT_NOFILE].rlim_cur)
+		goto out;
+
 repeat:
 	/*
 	 * Someone might have closed fd's in the range