On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Al Viro wrote:
> Several fixes, including the brown paperbag one for -ELOOP breakage
> in the last commit of yesterday pull. Please, pull from the usual place -
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6.git/ for-linus
__fput doesn't need a cdev_put() for O_PATH handles.
Signed-off-by: mszeredi@xxxxxxx
---
fs/file_table.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux-2.6/fs/file_table.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/file_table.c 2011-03-16 16:13:25.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6/fs/file_table.c 2011-03-16 17:50:22.000000000 +0100
@@ -246,8 +246,10 @@ static void __fput(struct file *file)
file->f_op->release(inode, file);
security_file_free(file);
ima_file_free(file);
- if (unlikely(S_ISCHR(inode->i_mode) && inode->i_cdev != NULL))
+ if (unlikely(S_ISCHR(inode->i_mode) && inode->i_cdev != NULL &&
+ !(file->f_mode & FMODE_PATH))) {
cdev_put(inode->i_cdev);
+ }
fops_put(file->f_op);
put_pid(file->f_owner.pid);
file_sb_list_del(file);
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