fix inode leaks on d_splice_alias() failure exits
d_splice_alias() callers expect it to either stash the inode reference
into a new alias, or drop the inode reference. That makes it possible
to just return d_splice_alias() result from ->lookup() instance, without
any extra housekeeping required.
Unfortunately, that should include the failure exits. If d_splice_alias()
returns an error, it leaves the dentry it has been given negative and
thus it *must* drop the inode reference. Easily fixed, but it goes way
back and will need backporting.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index d5a23fd..3ffef7f 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -2673,11 +2673,13 @@
if (!IS_ROOT(new)) {
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
dput(new);
+ iput(inode);
return ERR_PTR(-EIO);
}
if (d_ancestor(new, dentry)) {
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
dput(new);
+ iput(inode);
return ERR_PTR(-EIO);
}
write_seqlock(&rename_lock);