4.13-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> commit dc7ab6773e8171e07f16fd0df0c5eea28c899503 upstream. index dentry was not released when breaking out of the loop due to index verification error. Fixes: 415543d5c64f ("ovl: cleanup bad and stale index entries on mount") Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/readdir.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c @@ -672,6 +672,7 @@ int ovl_indexdir_cleanup(struct dentry * struct path *lowerstack, unsigned int numlower) { int err; + struct dentry *index = NULL; struct inode *dir = dentry->d_inode; struct path path = { .mnt = mnt, .dentry = dentry }; LIST_HEAD(list); @@ -690,8 +691,6 @@ int ovl_indexdir_cleanup(struct dentry * inode_lock_nested(dir, I_MUTEX_PARENT); list_for_each_entry(p, &list, l_node) { - struct dentry *index; - if (p->name[0] == '.') { if (p->len == 1) continue; @@ -701,6 +700,7 @@ int ovl_indexdir_cleanup(struct dentry * index = lookup_one_len(p->name, dentry, p->len); if (IS_ERR(index)) { err = PTR_ERR(index); + index = NULL; break; } err = ovl_verify_index(index, lowerstack, numlower); @@ -712,7 +712,9 @@ int ovl_indexdir_cleanup(struct dentry * break; } dput(index); + index = NULL; } + dput(index); inode_unlock(dir); out: ovl_cache_free(&list);