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Date:   Mon, 8 May 2017 20:47:38 +0900
From:   Masami Ichikawa <masami256@...il.com>
To:     "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
Cc:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, lkp@...org,
        xiaolong.ye@...el.com, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 64fa03de33: BUG:Dentry_still_in_use

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Serge E. Hallyn <serge@...lyn.com> wrote:
> From 6a3fb632f67f8425c6e76c65dad8115f1550d2a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Serge Hallyn <serge@...lyn.com>
> Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 23:40:42 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] cap_inode_getsecurity: don't pin dentry (fold up)
>
> This should fix the "Dentry_still_in_use" reported by the kernel
> test robot.
>
> Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@...lyn.com>
> ---
>  security/commoncap.c | 27 +++++++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c
> index a1a2935..c970b71 100644
> --- a/security/commoncap.c
> +++ b/security/commoncap.c
> @@ -406,21 +406,21 @@ int cap_inode_getsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void **buffer,
>                                  &tmpbuf, size, GFP_NOFS);
>
>         if (ret < 0)
> -               return ret;
> +               goto out;
>
>         fs_ns = inode->i_sb->s_user_ns;
>         cap = (struct vfs_cap_data *) tmpbuf;
>         if (is_v2header(ret, cap->magic_etc)) {
>                 /* If this is sizeof(vfs_cap_data) then we're ok with the
>                  * on-disk value, so return that.  */
> -               if (alloc)
> +               if (alloc) {
>                         *buffer = tmpbuf;
> -               else
> -                       kfree(tmpbuf);
> -               return ret;
> +                       tmpbuf = NULL;
> +               }
> +               goto out;
>         } else if (!is_v3header(ret, cap->magic_etc)) {
> -               kfree(tmpbuf);
> -               return -EINVAL;
> +               ret = -EINVAL;
> +               goto out;
>         }
>
>         nscap = (struct vfs_ns_cap_data *) tmpbuf;
> @@ -434,14 +434,14 @@ int cap_inode_getsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void **buffer,
>                 if (alloc) {
>                         *buffer = tmpbuf;
>                         nscap->rootid = cpu_to_le32(mappedroot);
> -               } else
> -                       kfree(tmpbuf);
> -               return size;
> +                       tmpbuf = NULL;
> +               }
> +               goto out;
>         }
>
>         if (!rootid_owns_currentns(kroot)) {
> -               kfree(tmpbuf);
> -               return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> +               ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> +               goto out;
>         }
>
>         /* This comes from a parent namespace.  Return as a v2 capability */
> @@ -459,6 +459,9 @@ int cap_inode_getsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void **buffer,
>                         cap->magic_etc = cpu_to_le32(magic);
>                 }
>         }
> +
> +out:
> +       dput(dentry);
>         kfree(tmpbuf);
>         return size;

If ret is set to some error code, e.g. -EINVAL, then jump to out
label, this function should return error code, doesn't it?

>  }
> --
> 2.7.4
>
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