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Date:	Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:47:07 +0100
From:	Anton Altaparmakov <anton@...era.com>
To:	Chao Yu <chao2.yu@...sung.com>
Cc:	linux-ntfs-dev@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ntfs: avoid incorrectly release for root inode in fill_super

Hi,

NAK

This patch is incorrect.  Perhaps you failed to see the ihold() above the d_make_root() call?  That means we hold two references on the inode - one from the load_system_files()::ntfs_iget() and one from the ihold() before d_make_root().

Thus in the error code path d_make_root() does iput() which releases one reference and then we do iput() in the error handling path of ntfs_fill_super() which releases the second reference.

Best regards,

	Anton

On 25 Jul 2014, at 03:25, Chao Yu <chao2.yu@...sung.com> wrote:

> In d_make_root, when we fail to allocate dentry for root inode, we will iput
> root inode in this function.
> So we do not need to release this inode again at d_make_root's caller.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@...sung.com>
> ---
> fs/ntfs/super.c | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ntfs/super.c b/fs/ntfs/super.c
> index 6c3296e..99c5cc6 100644
> --- a/fs/ntfs/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ntfs/super.c
> @@ -2975,7 +2975,11 @@ static int ntfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *opt, const int silent)
> 			vol->secure_ino = NULL;
> 		}
> 	}
> -	iput(vol->root_ino);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Just set NULL value here because we have already iput root_ino
> +	 * in d_make_root.
> +	 */
> 	vol->root_ino = NULL;
> 	iput(vol->lcnbmp_ino);
> 	vol->lcnbmp_ino = NULL;

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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
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