linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] jfs: Fix early release of acl in jfs_get

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Date:	Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:16:32 -0500
From:	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@...onical.com>
Cc:	jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	Christophe Dumez <dchris@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jfs: Fix early release of acl in jfs_get_acl

On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 16:45 +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
> Commit 073aaa1b142461d91f83da66db1184d7c1b1edea "helpers for acl
> caching + switch to those" introduced new helper functions for
> acl handling but seems to have introduced a regression for jfs as the
> acl is released before returning it to the caller, instead of
> leaving this for the caller to do.
> This causes the acl object to be used after freeing it, leading
> to kernel panics in completely different places.

This looks good.  Thanks much!  I'll get it upstream as soon as
possible.

> Thanks to Christophe Dumez for reporting and bisecting into this.
> 
> Reported-by: Christophe Dumez <dchris@...il.com>
> Tested-by: Christophe Dumez <dchris@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@...onical.com>
> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
> ---
>   fs/jfs/acl.c |    4 +---
>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Thanks,
Shaggy
-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center

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