Seen in RH 2.6.32, applies fine to latest Debian 2.6.32.
Please consider for longterm 2.6.32, 2.6.33 and 2.6.34.
(it got shipped with 2.6.35)

thank you.

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Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 01:00:47 GMT
From: Linux Kernel Mailing List <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: sunrpc/cache: fix module refcnt leak in a failure path

Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/linus/a5990ea1254cd186b38744507aeec3136a0c1c95
Commit:     a5990ea1254cd186b38744507aeec3136a0c1c95
Parent:     91885258e8343bb65c08f668d7e6c16563eb4284
Author:     Li Zefan <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Mar 11 14:08:10 2010 -0800
Committer:  J. Bruce Fields <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Wed Mar 24 10:40:46 2010 -0400

    sunrpc/cache: fix module refcnt leak in a failure path
    
    Don't forget to release the module refcnt if seq_open() returns failure.
    
    Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <[email protected]>
    Cc: J. Bruce Fields <[email protected]>
    Cc: Neil Brown <[email protected]>
    Cc: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
    Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <[email protected]>
---
 net/sunrpc/cache.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/cache.c b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
index 3e1ef8b..a3f340c 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/cache.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
@@ -1244,8 +1244,10 @@ static int content_open(struct inode *inode, struct file 
*file,
        if (!cd || !try_module_get(cd->owner))
                return -EACCES;
        han = __seq_open_private(file, &cache_content_op, sizeof(*han));
-       if (han == NULL)
+       if (han == NULL) {
+               module_put(cd->owner);
                return -ENOMEM;
+       }
 
        han->cd = cd;
        return 0;
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