If ovl_check_origin() fails, we should put upperdentry. We have a reference on it by now. So goto out_put_upper instead of out. Fixes: a9d019573e88 ("ovl: lookup non-dir copy-up-origin by file handle") Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> #4.12 Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/namei.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c index a12dc10bf726..bc6d5c5a3443 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c @@ -630,7 +630,7 @@ struct dentry *ovl_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, err = ovl_check_origin(upperdentry, roe->lowerstack, roe->numlower, &stack, &ctr); if (err) - goto out; + goto out_put_upper; } if (d.redirect) { -- 2.13.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-unionfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html