Patch "NFSv4: Fix a dentry leak on alias use" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    NFSv4: Fix a dentry leak on alias use

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     nfsv4-fix-a-dentry-leak-on-alias-use.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From d9dfd8d741683347ee159d25f5b50c346a0df557 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:41:41 -0500
Subject: NFSv4: Fix a dentry leak on alias use

From: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com>

commit d9dfd8d741683347ee159d25f5b50c346a0df557 upstream.

In the case where d_add_unique() finds an appropriate alias to use it will
have already incremented the reference count.  An additional dget() to swap
the open context's dentry is unnecessary and will leak a reference.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com>
Fixes: 275bb307865a3 ("NFSv4: Move dentry instantiation into the NFSv4-...")
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
@@ -2461,9 +2461,9 @@ static int _nfs4_open_and_get_state(stru
 		dentry = d_add_unique(dentry, igrab(state->inode));
 		if (dentry == NULL) {
 			dentry = opendata->dentry;
-		} else if (dentry != ctx->dentry) {
+		} else {
 			dput(ctx->dentry);
-			ctx->dentry = dget(dentry);
+			ctx->dentry = dentry;
 		}
 		nfs_set_verifier(dentry,
 				nfs_save_change_attribute(d_inode(opendata->dir)));


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bcodding@redhat.com are

queue-4.4/nfsv4-fix-a-dentry-leak-on-alias-use.patch