3.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Al Viro <[email protected]> commit 51486b900ee92856b977eacfc5bfbe6565028070 upstream. d_splice_alias() callers expect it to either stash the inode reference into a new alias, or drop the inode reference. That makes it possible to just return d_splice_alias() result from ->lookup() instance, without any extra housekeeping required. Unfortunately, that should include the failure exits. If d_splice_alias() returns an error, it leaves the dentry it has been given negative and thus it *must* drop the inode reference. Easily fixed, but it goes way back and will need backporting. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- fs/dcache.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -2675,11 +2675,13 @@ struct dentry *d_splice_alias(struct ino if (!IS_ROOT(new)) { spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); dput(new); + iput(inode); return ERR_PTR(-EIO); } if (d_ancestor(new, dentry)) { spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); dput(new); + iput(inode); return ERR_PTR(-EIO); } write_seqlock(&rename_lock); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
