free the symlink body after the same RCU delay we have for freeing the struct inode itself, so that traversal during RCU pathwalk wouldn't step into freed memory. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/fs/ceph/inode.c b/fs/ceph/inode.c index e3346628efe2..2d61ddda9bf5 100644 --- a/fs/ceph/inode.c +++ b/fs/ceph/inode.c @@ -524,6 +524,7 @@ static void ceph_i_callback(struct rcu_head *head) struct inode *inode = container_of(head, struct inode, i_rcu); struct ceph_inode_info *ci = ceph_inode(inode); + kfree(ci->i_symlink); kmem_cache_free(ceph_inode_cachep, ci); } @@ -566,7 +567,6 @@ void ceph_destroy_inode(struct inode *inode) } } - kfree(ci->i_symlink); while ((n = rb_first(&ci->i_fragtree)) != NULL) { frag = rb_entry(n, struct ceph_inode_frag, node); rb_erase(n, &ci->i_fragtree);