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

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Date:	Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:14:17 -0600
From:	Michael Halcrow <mike@...crow.us>
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>,
	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ecryptfs: redo dget,mntget on dentry_open failure

On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:34:25AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 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>

Acked-by: Mike Halcrow <mhalcrow@...ibm.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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