Currently, we just assume that it will stick around by virtue of the submitter's reference, but later patches will allow the syscall to return early and we can't rely on that reference at that point. Take an extra reference to the inode when setting r_parent and release it when releasing the request. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ceph/mds_client.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ceph/mds_client.c b/fs/ceph/mds_client.c index d6a4f586b2a0..a0261d98069d 100644 --- a/fs/ceph/mds_client.c +++ b/fs/ceph/mds_client.c @@ -696,8 +696,10 @@ void ceph_mdsc_release_request(struct kref *kref) ceph_put_cap_refs(ceph_inode(req->r_inode), CEPH_CAP_PIN); iput(req->r_inode); } - if (req->r_parent) + if (req->r_parent) { ceph_put_cap_refs(ceph_inode(req->r_parent), CEPH_CAP_PIN); + iput(req->r_parent); + } iput(req->r_target_inode); if (req->r_dentry) dput(req->r_dentry); @@ -2651,8 +2653,10 @@ int ceph_mdsc_submit_request(struct ceph_mds_client *mdsc, struct inode *dir, /* take CAP_PIN refs for r_inode, r_parent, r_old_dentry */ if (req->r_inode) ceph_get_cap_refs(ceph_inode(req->r_inode), CEPH_CAP_PIN); - if (req->r_parent) + if (req->r_parent) { ceph_get_cap_refs(ceph_inode(req->r_parent), CEPH_CAP_PIN); + ihold(req->r_parent); + } if (req->r_old_dentry_dir) ceph_get_cap_refs(ceph_inode(req->r_old_dentry_dir), CEPH_CAP_PIN); -- 2.20.1