Re: [PATCH] procfs: Fix refcnt leak on proc_self_follow_link() error path

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On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:43:01 +0000
Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 03:38:36AM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> > 
> > If ->follow_link handler return the error, it should decrement
> > nd->path refcnt.
> > 
> > This patch fix it.
> 
> It's OK for -stable, but for the next tree... not really.  I'd rather
> kill vfs_follow_link() uses here and in gfs2; see #untested in vfs-2.6.git
> for details.

Confused.  Is #untested planned for 2.6.33?  If not, how do we fix this
bug in .33?
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