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| author | Al Viro | 2013-11-29 07:48:32 +0100 |
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| committer | Al Viro | 2013-11-29 07:50:51 +0100 |
| commit | d870b4a191a389c661cd40aacb06981c26b5e504 (patch) | |
| tree | 1518f3a778b105f737b3ba8453ec557ac8234f6d /fs/namei.c | |
| parent | Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://cavan.codon.org.uk/platform-drivers-x86 (diff) | |
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fix bogus path_put() of nd->root after some unlazy_walk() failures
Failure to grab reference to parent dentry should go through the
same cleanup as nd->seq mismatch. As it is, we might end up with
caller thinking it needs to path_put() nd->root, with obvious
nasty results once we'd hit that bug enough times to drive the
refcount of root dentry all the way to zero...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 8f77a8cea289..c53d3a9547f9 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -513,8 +513,7 @@ static int unlazy_walk(struct nameidata *nd, struct dentry *dentry) if (!lockref_get_not_dead(&parent->d_lockref)) { nd->path.dentry = NULL; - rcu_read_unlock(); - return -ECHILD; + goto out; } /* |