fs/pipe.c: preserve alloc_file() error code
If sys_pipe() was unable to allocate a 'struct file', it always failed with ENFILE, which means "The number of simultaneously open files in the system would exceed a system-imposed limit." However, alloc_file() actually returns an ERR_PTR value and might fail with other error codes. Currently, in addition to ENFILE, it can fail with ENOMEM, potentially when there are few open files in the system. Update sys_pipe() to preserve this error code. In a prior submission of a similar patch (1) some concern was raised about introducing a new error code for sys_pipe(). However, for most system calls, programs cannot assume that new error codes will never be introduced. In addition, ENOMEM was, in fact, already a possible error code for sys_pipe(), in the case where the file descriptor table could not be expanded due to insufficient memory. (1) http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1357942 Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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