On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:40:25PM -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote:
> From d2a6c5d29dc34cfea892124ab72b4eb55d2f8a80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Casey Dahlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 22:01:49 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] Code style fix for open_exec
> 
> Fix a horribly mangled 5 level indent and severe abuse of goto in the 
> open_exec
> function.

While the function is not nice your version makes it even worse.

Try this one instead which has been in my pending testing tree for a while:



Index: linux-2.6/fs/exec.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/exec.c    2007-09-16 20:29:01.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/fs/exec.c 2007-09-16 20:29:56.000000000 +0200
@@ -669,41 +669,55 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(setup_arg_pages);
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_MMU */
 
+/**
+ * open_exec - open file for execution
+ * @name:      filename to open
+ *
+ * Open the file pointed to by @filename in the current namespace
+ * for execution.  Error out if the file is not a regular file or
+ * this mount does not allow executing files on it.
+ */
 struct file *open_exec(const char *name)
 {
        struct nameidata nd;
-       int err;
        struct file *file;
+       int err;
 
-       err = path_lookup_open(AT_FDCWD, name, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &nd, 
FMODE_READ|FMODE_EXEC);
-       file = ERR_PTR(err);
+       err = path_lookup_open(AT_FDCWD, name, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &nd,
+                               FMODE_READ|FMODE_EXEC);
+       if (unlikely(err))
+               goto out;
 
-       if (!err) {
-               struct inode *inode = nd.dentry->d_inode;
-               file = ERR_PTR(-EACCES);
-               if (!(nd.mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOEXEC) &&
-                   S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {
-                       int err = vfs_permission(&nd, MAY_EXEC);
-                       file = ERR_PTR(err);
-                       if (!err) {
-                               file = nameidata_to_filp(&nd, O_RDONLY);
-                               if (!IS_ERR(file)) {
-                                       err = deny_write_access(file);
-                                       if (err) {
-                                               fput(file);
-                                               file = ERR_PTR(err);
-                                       }
-                               }
-out:
-                               return file;
-                       }
-               }
-               release_open_intent(&nd);
-               path_release(&nd);
+       err = -EACCES;
+       if (unlikely(nd.mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOEXEC))
+               goto out_path_release;
+       if (unlikely(!S_ISREG(nd.dentry->d_inode->i_mode)))
+               goto out_path_release;
+
+       err = vfs_permission(&nd, MAY_EXEC);
+       if (unlikely(err))
+               goto out_path_release;
+
+       file = nameidata_to_filp(&nd, O_RDONLY);
+       if (unlikely(IS_ERR(file))) {
+               err = PTR_ERR(file);
+               goto out;
+       }
+
+       err = deny_write_access(file);
+       if (unlikely(err)) {
+               fput(file);
+               goto out;
        }
-       goto out;
-}
 
+       return file;
+
+ out_path_release:
+       release_open_intent(&nd);
+       path_release(&nd);
+ out:
+       return ERR_PTR(err);
+}
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(open_exec);
 
 int kernel_read(struct file *file, unsigned long offset,
-
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