From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 40a3cb0d2314a41975aa385a74643878454f6eac ] All callers of d_alloc_parallel() must make sure that resulting in-lookup dentry (if any) will encounter __d_lookup_done() before the final dput(). d_add_ci() might end up creating in-lookup dentries; they are fed to d_splice_alias(), which will normally make sure they meet __d_lookup_done(). However, it is possible to end up with d_splice_alias() failing with ERR_PTR(-ELOOP) without having done so. It takes a corrupted ntfs or case-insensitive xfs image, but neither should end up with memory corruption... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/dcache.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index 1897833a4668..1e9f4dd94e6c 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -2080,6 +2080,7 @@ struct dentry *d_add_ci(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode, } res = d_splice_alias(inode, found); if (res) { + d_lookup_done(found); dput(found); return res; } -- 2.35.1