From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit 3cab989afd8d8d1bc3d99fef0e7ed87c31e7b647 upstream. Calling unlazy_walk() in walk_component() and do_last() when we find a symlink that needs to be followed doesn't acquire a reference to vfsmount. That's fine when the symlink is on the same vfsmount as the parent directory (which is almost always the case), but it's not always true - one _can_ manage to bind a symlink on top of something. And in such cases we end up with excessive mntput(). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 1004966437f9..c0c78e193e2a 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1557,7 +1557,8 @@ static inline int walk_component(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path, if (should_follow_link(inode, follow)) { if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) { - if (unlikely(unlazy_walk(nd, path->dentry))) { + if (unlikely(nd->path.mnt != path->mnt || + unlazy_walk(nd, path->dentry))) { err = -ECHILD; goto out_err; } @@ -3023,7 +3024,8 @@ finish_lookup: if (should_follow_link(inode, !symlink_ok)) { if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) { - if (unlikely(unlazy_walk(nd, path->dentry))) { + if (unlikely(nd->path.mnt != path->mnt || + unlazy_walk(nd, path->dentry))) { error = -ECHILD; goto out; } -- 2.3.5 -- 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