On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:06:10PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > There is a ref count problem in fs/namei.c:do_lookup(). > > When walking in ref-walk mode, if follow_managed() returns a fail the > reference held by path.dentry isn't dropped. If we get to follow_managed(), we *are* in ref-walk mode. Unconditionally. Besided, that's path_put_conditional(), not dput() - we might have both grabbed vfsmount on mountpoint crossing *AND* changed dentry. Applied with modifications... The rest applied as-is. -- 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
