This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled 9p: don't leave a half-initialized inode sitting around to the 3.14-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: 9p-don-t-leave-a-half-initialized-inode-sitting-around.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 0a73d0a204a4a04a1e110539c5a524ae51f91d6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 10:34:29 -0400 Subject: 9p: don't leave a half-initialized inode sitting around From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 0a73d0a204a4a04a1e110539c5a524ae51f91d6d upstream. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/9p/vfs_inode.c | 3 +-- fs/9p/vfs_inode_dotl.c | 3 +-- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c +++ b/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c @@ -540,8 +540,7 @@ static struct inode *v9fs_qid_iget(struc unlock_new_inode(inode); return inode; error: - unlock_new_inode(inode); - iput(inode); + iget_failed(inode); return ERR_PTR(retval); } --- a/fs/9p/vfs_inode_dotl.c +++ b/fs/9p/vfs_inode_dotl.c @@ -149,8 +149,7 @@ static struct inode *v9fs_qid_iget_dotl( unlock_new_inode(inode); return inode; error: - unlock_new_inode(inode); - iput(inode); + iget_failed(inode); return ERR_PTR(retval); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/9p-forgetting-to-cancel-request-on-interrupted-zero-copy-rpc.patch queue-3.14/9p-don-t-leave-a-half-initialized-inode-sitting-around.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