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Date:	Sat, 5 Dec 2009 20:23:18 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>
To:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/15] shmem: do not call fput_filp on an initialized
 filp

On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Eric Paris wrote:

> fput_filp is supposed to be used when the filp was not used.  But in the

   put_filp

> ifndef CONFIG_MMU case shmem_setup_file could call this one an initialized

                                                          on

> filp.  It should be using fput() instead.  Since the fput() will dec the ima
> counts we also need to move the ima hook to make sure that is set up before
> the fput().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
> Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>

Thanks,
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>

> ---
> 
>  mm/shmem.c |    9 ++++++---
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
> index 356dd99..e7f8968 100644
> --- a/mm/shmem.c
> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
> @@ -2656,12 +2656,15 @@ struct file *shmem_file_setup(const char *name, loff_t size, unsigned long flags
>  	init_file(file, shm_mnt, dentry, FMODE_WRITE | FMODE_READ,
>  		  &shmem_file_operations);
>  
> +	ima_counts_get(file);
> +
>  #ifndef CONFIG_MMU
>  	error = ramfs_nommu_expand_for_mapping(inode, size);
> -	if (error)
> -		goto close_file;
> +	if (error) {
> +		fput(file);
> +		return error;
> +	}
>  #endif
> -	ima_counts_get(file);
>  	return file;
>  
>  close_file:
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