linux-kernel - [PATCH] ecryptfs: redo dget,mntget on dentry

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Date:	Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:34:25 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@...ibm.com>
CC:	mike@...crow.us, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ecryptfs: redo dget,mntget on dentry_open failure

Thanks to Jeff Moyer for pointing this out.

If the RDWR dentry_open() in ecryptfs_init_persistent_file fails,
it will do a dput/mntput.  Need to re-take references if we
retry as RDONLY.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
---

Index: linux-2.6.24-rc3/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.24-rc3.orig/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
+++ linux-2.6.24-rc3/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
@@ -138,11 +138,14 @@ int ecryptfs_init_persistent_file(struct
 		inode_info->lower_file = dentry_open(lower_dentry,
 						     lower_mnt,
 						     (O_RDWR | O_LARGEFILE));
-		if (IS_ERR(inode_info->lower_file))
+		if (IS_ERR(inode_info->lower_file)) {
+			dget(lower_dentry);
+			mntget(lower_mnt);
 			inode_info->lower_file = dentry_open(lower_dentry,
 							     lower_mnt,
 							     (O_RDONLY
 							      | O_LARGEFILE));
+		}
 		if (IS_ERR(inode_info->lower_file)) {
 			printk(KERN_ERR "Error opening lower persistent file "
 			       "for lower_dentry [0x%p] and lower_mnt [0x%p]\n",

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