linux-kernel - [git pull] a couple of fixes in vfs.git

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Date:   Tue, 6 Apr 2021 17:15:11 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [git pull] a couple of fixes in vfs.git

	Fairly old hostfs bug (in setups that are not used
by anyone, apparently) + fix for this cycle regression:
extra dput/mntput in LOOKUP_CACHED failure handling.

The following changes since commit a38fd8748464831584a19438cbb3082b5a2dab15:

  Linux 5.12-rc2 (2021-03-05 17:33:41 -0800)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git fixes

for you to fetch changes up to 7d01ef7585c07afaf487759a48486228cd065726:

  Make sure nd->path.mnt and nd->path.dentry are always valid pointers (2021-04-06 12:33:07 -0400)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Al Viro (2):
      hostfs: fix memory handling in follow_link()
      Make sure nd->path.mnt and nd->path.dentry are always valid pointers

 fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c | 7 +++----
 fs/namei.c              | 6 ++++--
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)