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

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Message-ID: <x49prx237j9.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:42:50 -0500
From:	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@...ibm.com>, mike@...crow.us
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ecryptfs: redo dget,mntget on dentry_open failure

Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> writes:

> 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>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>

Thanks,

Jeff
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