This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled GFS2: Fix ref count bug relating to atomic_open to the 3.12-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: gfs2-fix-ref-count-bug-relating-to-atomic_open.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From ea0341e071527d5cec350917b01ab901af09d758 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 18:47:57 +0000 Subject: GFS2: Fix ref count bug relating to atomic_open From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx> commit ea0341e071527d5cec350917b01ab901af09d758 upstream. In the case that atomic_open calls finish_no_open() with the dentry that was supplied to gfs2_atomic_open() an extra reference count is required. This patch fixes that issue preventing a bug trap triggering at umount time. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/gfs2/inode.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/gfs2/inode.c +++ b/fs/gfs2/inode.c @@ -1168,8 +1168,11 @@ static int gfs2_atomic_open(struct inode if (d != NULL) dentry = d; if (dentry->d_inode) { - if (!(*opened & FILE_OPENED)) + if (!(*opened & FILE_OPENED)) { + if (d == NULL) + dget(dentry); return finish_no_open(file, dentry); + } dput(d); return 0; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.12/gfs2-fix-ref-count-bug-relating-to-atomic_open.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