linux-kernel - [PATCH] proc: Fix unbalanced hard link numbers

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Date:   Fri, 28 Apr 2017 15:00:15 +0200
From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Tristan Ye <tristan.ye@...e.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] proc: Fix unbalanced hard link numbers

proc_create_mount_point() forgot to increase the parent's nlink, and
it resulted in unbalanced hard link numbers, e.g. /proc/fs shows one
less than expected.

Fixes: eb6d38d5427b ("proc: Allow creating permanently empty directories...")
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Reported-by: Tristan Ye <tristan.ye@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
---
 fs/proc/generic.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/proc/generic.c b/fs/proc/generic.c
index ee27feb34cf4..9425c0d97262 100644
--- a/fs/proc/generic.c
+++ b/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -472,6 +472,7 @@ struct proc_dir_entry *proc_create_mount_point(const char *name)
 		ent->data = NULL;
 		ent->proc_fops = NULL;
 		ent->proc_iops = NULL;
+		parent->nlink++;
 		if (proc_register(parent, ent) < 0) {
 			kfree(ent);
 			parent->nlink--;
-- 
2.12.2