Don't allocate an unused fd for each call. Also drop the extra reference from filp_open after the init_dup calls while we're at it. Fixes: 36e96b411649 ("init: add an init_dup helper") Reported-by Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- Al, feel free to fold this into the original patch, as that is the last one in the branch. fs/init.c | 2 +- init/main.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/init.c b/fs/init.c index 730e05acda2392..e9c320a48cf157 100644 --- a/fs/init.c +++ b/fs/init.c @@ -260,6 +260,6 @@ int __init init_dup(struct file *file) fd = get_unused_fd_flags(0); if (fd < 0) return fd; - fd_install(get_unused_fd_flags(0), get_file(file)); + fd_install(fd, get_file(file)); return 0; } diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c index 089e21504b1fc1..9dae9c4f806bb9 100644 --- a/init/main.c +++ b/init/main.c @@ -1470,6 +1470,7 @@ void __init console_on_rootfs(void) init_dup(file); init_dup(file); init_dup(file); + fput(file); } static noinline void __init kernel_init_freeable(void) -- 2.27.0