linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] i915: do not leak module ref counter

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Date:   Fri, 02 Aug 2019 13:58:36 +0100
From:   Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
To:     Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@...el.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Cc:     David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] i915: do not leak module ref counter

Quoting Sergey Senozhatsky (2019-08-02 13:39:56)
> put_filesystem() before i915_gemfs_init() deals with
> kern_mount() error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gemfs.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gemfs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gemfs.c
> index cf05ba72df9d..d437188d1736 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gemfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gemfs.c
> @@ -24,8 +24,10 @@ int i915_gemfs_init(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
>                 return -ENODEV;
>  
>         gemfs = kern_mount(type);

Looking around, it looks like we always need to drop type after
mounting. Should the
	put_filesystem(type);
be here instead?

Anyway, nice catch.

> -       if (IS_ERR(gemfs))
> +       if (IS_ERR(gemfs)) {
> +               put_filesystem(type);
>                 return PTR_ERR(gemfs);
> +       }
>  
>         /*
>          * Enable huge-pages for objects that are at least HPAGE_PMD_SIZE, most
> -- 
> 2.22.0
>