vfs - fix dentry ref count in do_lookup()
There is a ref count problem in fs/namei.c:do_lookup().
When walking in ref-walk mode, if follow_managed() returns a fail we
need to drop dentry and possibly vfsmount. Clean up properly,
as we do in the other caller of follow_managed().
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index b753192..7d77f24 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1272,8 +1272,10 @@
path->mnt = mnt;
path->dentry = dentry;
err = follow_managed(path, nd->flags);
- if (unlikely(err < 0))
+ if (unlikely(err < 0)) {
+ path_put_conditional(path, nd);
return err;
+ }
*inode = path->dentry->d_inode;
return 0;