Recent changes to retry on ESTALE in linkat (commit 442e31ca5a49e398351b2954b51f578353fdf210) introduced a mountpoint reference leak and a small memory leak in case a filesystem link operation returns ESTALE which is pretty normal for distributed filesystems like lustre, nfs and so on. Free old_path in such a case. Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin: <green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index bcb838e..e620937 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -3931,6 +3931,7 @@ out_dput: goto retry; } if (retry_estale(error, how)) { + path_put(&old_path); how |= LOOKUP_REVAL; goto retry; } -- 1.8.5.3 -- 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