This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
GFS2: fix d_splice_alias() misuses
to the 3.16-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-d_splice_alias-misuses.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.16 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From cfb2f9d5c921e38b0f12bb26fed10b877664444d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 20:56:04 +0100
Subject: GFS2: fix d_splice_alias() misuses
From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit cfb2f9d5c921e38b0f12bb26fed10b877664444d upstream.
Callers of d_splice_alias(dentry, inode) don't need iput(), neither
on success nor on failure. Either the reference to inode is stored
in a previously negative dentry, or it's dropped. In either case
inode reference the caller used to hold is consumed.
__gfs2_lookup() does iput() in case when d_splice_alias() has failed.
Double iput() if we ever hit that. And gfs2_create_inode() ends up
not only with double iput(), but with link count dropped to zero - on
an inode it has just found in directory.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/gfs2/inode.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/gfs2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/inode.c
@@ -626,8 +626,10 @@ static int gfs2_create_inode(struct inod
if (!IS_ERR(inode)) {
d = d_splice_alias(inode, dentry);
error = PTR_ERR(d);
- if (IS_ERR(d))
+ if (IS_ERR(d)) {
+ inode = ERR_CAST(d);
goto fail_gunlock;
+ }
error = 0;
if (file) {
if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {
@@ -854,7 +856,6 @@ static struct dentry *__gfs2_lookup(stru
d = d_splice_alias(inode, dentry);
if (IS_ERR(d)) {
- iput(inode);
gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(&gh);
return d;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.16/gfs2-fix-d_splice_alias-misuses.patch
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