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 d3c00b417c4e..115f753e05b1 100644 --- a/fs/ceph/mds_client.c +++ b/fs/ceph/mds_client.c @@ -707,8 +707,10 @@ void ceph_mdsc_release_request(struct kref *kref) /* avoid calling iput_final() in mds dispatch threads */ ceph_async_iput(req->r_inode); } - if (req->r_parent) + if (req->r_parent) { ceph_put_cap_refs(ceph_inode(req->r_parent), CEPH_CAP_PIN); + ceph_async_iput(req->r_parent); + } ceph_async_iput(req->r_target_inode); if (req->r_dentry) dput(req->r_dentry); @@ -2669,8 +2671,10 @@ 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); -- 2.21.0