This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
proc: Fix unbalanced hard link numbers
to the 4.4-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:
proc-fix-unbalanced-hard-link-numbers.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From d66bb1607e2d8d384e53f3d93db5c18483c8c4f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 15:00:15 +0200
Subject: proc: Fix unbalanced hard link numbers
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
commit d66bb1607e2d8d384e53f3d93db5c18483c8c4f7 upstream.
proc_create_mount_point() forgot to increase the parent's nlink, and
it resulted in unbalanced hard link numbers, e.g. /proc/fs shows one
less than expected.
Fixes: eb6d38d5427b ("proc: Allow creating permanently empty directories...")
Reported-by: Tristan Ye <tristan.ye@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/proc/generic.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/fs/proc/generic.c
+++ b/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -469,6 +469,7 @@ struct proc_dir_entry *proc_create_mount
ent->data = NULL;
ent->proc_fops = NULL;
ent->proc_iops = NULL;
+ parent->nlink++;
if (proc_register(parent, ent) < 0) {
kfree(ent);
parent->nlink--;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tiwai@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/proc-fix-unbalanced-hard-link-numbers.patch