AFAICS, we have a subtle bug there: if we have crossed mountpoint *and* it got mount --move'd away, we'll be holding only one reference to fs containing dentry - exp->ex_path.mnt. IOW, we ought to dput() before exp_put(). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfsd/vfs.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c index ab93fcf..46e6bd2 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c @@ -116,10 +116,15 @@ nfsd_cross_mnt(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct dentry **dpp, } if ((exp->ex_flags & NFSEXP_CROSSMOUNT) || EX_NOHIDE(exp2)) { /* successfully crossed mount point */ - exp_put(exp); - *expp = exp2; + /* + * This is subtle: dentry is *not* under mnt at this point. + * The only reason we are safe is that original mnt is pinned + * down by exp, so we should dput before putting exp. + */ dput(dentry); *dpp = mounts; + exp_put(exp); + *expp = exp2; } else { exp_put(exp2); dput(mounts); -- 1.5.6.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html