This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled qibfs: fix dentry leak to the 6.6-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: qibfs-fix-dentry-leak.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit bcd1225d1bc0341816567f3f9d0b8a319a4fb815 Author: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Feb 25 23:58:42 2024 -0500 qibfs: fix dentry leak [ Upstream commit aa23317d0268b309bb3f0801ddd0d61813ff5afb ] simple_recursive_removal() drops the pinning references to all positives in subtree. For the cases when its argument has been kept alive by the pinning alone that's exactly the right thing to do, but here the argument comes from dcache lookup, that needs to be balanced by explicit dput(). Fixes: e41d237818598 "qib_fs: switch to simple_recursive_removal()" Fucked-up-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_fs.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_fs.c index ed7d4b02f45a6..11155e0fb8395 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_fs.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_fs.c @@ -439,6 +439,7 @@ static int remove_device_files(struct super_block *sb, return PTR_ERR(dir); } simple_recursive_removal(dir, NULL); + dput(dir); return 0; }