From: Jeff King Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:37:10 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/3] gpg: Close stderr once finished with it in verify_signed_buffer() Message-ID: <20130131223710.GD21729@sigill.intra.peff.net> In-Reply-To: <1359656320-4434-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:18:40AM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote: > Failing to close the stderr pipe in verify_signed_buffer() causes > git to run out of file descriptors if there are many calls to > verify_signed_buffer(). An easy way to trigger this is to run > > git log --show-signature --merges | grep "key" > > on the linux kernel git repo. Eventually it will fail with > > error: cannot create pipe for gpg: Too many open files > error: could not run gpg. > > Close the stderr pipe so that this can't happen. > > Suggested-by: Jeff King > Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd Thanks, looks good to me (obviously :) ). The rest of the series looks fine, too, with the caveat I mentioned on 2/3. Thanks for fixing this. -Peff