This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Fix mountpoint reference leakage in linkat
to the 3.10-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:
fix-mountpoint-reference-leakage-in-linkat.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From d22e6338db7f613dd4f6095c190682fcc519e4b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Drokin <green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 15:41:58 -0500
Subject: Fix mountpoint reference leakage in linkat
From: Oleg Drokin <green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit d22e6338db7f613dd4f6095c190682fcc519e4b7 upstream.
Recent changes to retry on ESTALE in linkat
(commit 442e31ca5a49e398351b2954b51f578353fdf210)
introduced a mountpoint reference leak and a small memory
leak in case a filesystem link operation returns ESTALE
which is pretty normal for distributed filesystems like
lustre, nfs and so on.
Free old_path in such a case.
[AV: there was another missing path_put() nearby - on the previous
goto retry]
Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin: <green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/namei.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -3655,6 +3655,7 @@ retry:
out_dput:
done_path_create(&new_path, new_dentry);
if (retry_estale(error, how)) {
+ path_put(&old_path);
how |= LOOKUP_REVAL;
goto retry;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.10/fix-mountpoint-reference-leakage-in-linkat.patch
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