We need to free the inode again on a hfsplus_create_cat failure. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6/fs/hfsplus/dir.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/hfsplus/dir.c 2010-09-30 10:04:44.372782662 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/hfsplus/dir.c 2010-09-30 10:10:57.316782806 +0200 @@ -364,31 +364,29 @@ static int hfsplus_rmdir(struct inode *d static int hfsplus_symlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, const char *symname) { - struct super_block *sb; struct inode *inode; int res; - sb = dir->i_sb; - inode = hfsplus_new_inode(sb, S_IFLNK | S_IRWXUGO); + inode = hfsplus_new_inode(dir->i_sb, S_IFLNK | S_IRWXUGO); if (!inode) return -ENOSPC; res = page_symlink(inode, symname, strlen(symname) + 1); - if (res) { - inode->i_nlink = 0; - hfsplus_delete_inode(inode); - iput(inode); - return res; - } + if (res) + goto out_err; - mark_inode_dirty(inode); res = hfsplus_create_cat(inode->i_ino, dir, &dentry->d_name, inode); + if (res) + goto out_err; - if (!res) { - hfsplus_instantiate(dentry, inode, inode->i_ino); - mark_inode_dirty(inode); - } + hfsplus_instantiate(dentry, inode, inode->i_ino); + mark_inode_dirty(inode); + return 0; +out_err: + inode->i_nlink = 0; + hfsplus_delete_inode(inode); + iput(inode); return res; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html