On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 10:05:34AM -0700, Vito Caputo wrote:
> The existing path and memory cleanups appear to be in reverse order, and
> there's no iput() potentially leaking the inode in the last two error gotos.
>
> Also make put_memory shmem_unacct_size() conditional on !inode since if we
> entered cleanup at put_inode, shmem_evict_inode() occurs via
> iput()->iput_final(), which performs the shmem_unacct_size() for us.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vito Caputo <vcaputo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> This caught my eye while looking through the memfd_create() implementation.
> Included patch was compile tested only...
Obviously so, since you've just introduced a double iput() there. After
d_instantiate(path.dentry, inode);
dropping the reference to path.dentry (done by path_put(&path)) will drop
the reference to inode transferred into that dentry by d_instantiate().
NAK.
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