When a dentry becomes invalid we can safely kill it and free the associated memory. This fixes a memory leakage in the tftp and nfs code as these regularly declare a dentry as invalid.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <[email protected]> --- fs/fs.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/fs.c b/fs/fs.c index f24962d2a6..a9d2cc7088 100644 --- a/fs/fs.c +++ b/fs/fs.c @@ -1577,6 +1577,7 @@ static struct dentry *lookup_dcache(const struct qstr *name, if (!error) d_invalidate(dentry); dput(dentry); + dentry_kill(dentry); return ERR_PTR(error); } } -- 2.39.5
