This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled path_openat(): fix double fput() to the 3.14-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: path_openat-fix-double-fput.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f15133df088ecadd141ea1907f2c96df67c729f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 22:53:15 -0400 Subject: path_openat(): fix double fput() From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit f15133df088ecadd141ea1907f2c96df67c729f0 upstream. path_openat() jumps to the wrong place after do_tmpfile() - it has already done path_cleanup() (as part of path_lookupat() called by do_tmpfile()), so doing that again can lead to double fput(). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -3171,7 +3171,7 @@ static struct file *path_openat(int dfd, if (unlikely(file->f_flags & __O_TMPFILE)) { error = do_tmpfile(dfd, pathname, nd, flags, op, file, &opened); - goto out; + goto out2; } error = path_init(dfd, pathname->name, flags | LOOKUP_PARENT, nd, &base); @@ -3209,6 +3209,7 @@ out: path_put(&nd->root); if (base) fput(base); +out2: if (!(opened & FILE_OPENED)) { BUG_ON(!error); put_filp(file); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/new-helper-dentry_free.patch queue-3.14/don-t-remove-from-shrink-list-in-select_collect.patch queue-3.14/fold-try_prune_one_dentry.patch queue-3.14/more-graceful-recovery-in-umount_collect.patch queue-3.14/expand-the-call-of-dentry_lru_del-in-dentry_kill.patch queue-3.14/dcache-don-t-need-rcu-in-shrink_dentry_list.patch queue-3.14/path_openat-fix-double-fput.patch queue-3.14/fold-d_kill-and-d_free.patch queue-3.14/ipc-modify-message-queue-accounting-to-not-take-kernel-data-structures-into-account.patch queue-3.14/dentry_kill-don-t-try-to-remove-from-shrink-list.patch queue-3.14/sg_start_req-make-sure-that-there-s-not-too-many-elements-in-iovec.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html