linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.14 199/238] GFS2: fix d_splice

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Date:	Fri,  3 Oct 2014 14:31:54 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.14 199/238] GFS2: fix d_splice_alias() misuses

3.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>

commit cfb2f9d5c921e38b0f12bb26fed10b877664444d upstream.

Callers of d_splice_alias(dentry, inode) don't need iput(), neither
on success nor on failure.  Either the reference to inode is stored
in a previously negative dentry, or it's dropped.  In either case
inode reference the caller used to hold is consumed.

__gfs2_lookup() does iput() in case when d_splice_alias() has failed.
Double iput() if we ever hit that.  And gfs2_create_inode() ends up
not only with double iput(), but with link count dropped to zero - on
an inode it has just found in directory.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/gfs2/inode.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/gfs2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/inode.c
@@ -606,8 +606,10 @@ static int gfs2_create_inode(struct inod
 	if (!IS_ERR(inode)) {
 		d = d_splice_alias(inode, dentry);
 		error = PTR_ERR(d);
-		if (IS_ERR(d))
+		if (IS_ERR(d)) {
+			inode = ERR_CAST(d);
 			goto fail_gunlock;
+		}
 		error = 0;
 		if (file) {
 			if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {
@@ -823,7 +825,6 @@ static struct dentry *__gfs2_lookup(stru
 
 	d = d_splice_alias(inode, dentry);
 	if (IS_ERR(d)) {
-		iput(inode);
 		gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(&gh);
 		return d;
 	}


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