This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
vfs: fix d_inode_lookup() dentry ref leak
to the 3.2-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
vfs-fix-d_inode_lookup-dentry-ref-leak.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.2 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From e188dc02d3a9c911be56eca5aa114fe7e9822d53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 14:25:18 +0100
Subject: vfs: fix d_inode_lookup() dentry ref leak
From: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
commit e188dc02d3a9c911be56eca5aa114fe7e9822d53 upstream.
d_inode_lookup() leaks a dentry reference on IS_DEADDIR().
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
fs/namei.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1094,8 +1094,10 @@ static struct dentry *d_inode_lookup(str
struct dentry *old;
/* Don't create child dentry for a dead directory. */
- if (unlikely(IS_DEADDIR(inode)))
+ if (unlikely(IS_DEADDIR(inode))) {
+ dput(dentry);
return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
+ }
old = inode->i_op->lookup(inode, dentry, nd);
if (unlikely(old)) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.2/vfs-fix-d_inode_lookup-dentry-ref-leak.patch
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