From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH vfs/for-next v4] cgroup: fix top cgroup refcnt leak
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 20:02:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190102200223.GI2217@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190102193756.6096-1-avagin@gmail.com>
On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 11:37:56AM -0800, Andrei Vagin wrote:
> + if (unlikely(ret)) {
> + dput(fc->root);
> + deactivate_locked_super(fc->root->d_sb);
> + fc->root = NULL;
Er... I'd rather not dereference the damn thing after dput().
It's _probably_ OK (fc->root here, AFAICS, is going to be
equal to its ->sb->s_root, and thus still pinned), but it's
better to fetch ->d_sb first. If nothing else, it's easier
to prove correctness that way...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-02 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-28 23:59 [PATCH] cgroup: fix top cgroup refcnt leak Andrei Vagin
2018-12-29 0:04 ` [PATCH vfs/for-next v2] " Andrei Vagin
2018-12-30 19:41 ` Andrei Vagin
2019-01-02 2:28 ` Al Viro
2019-01-02 18:14 ` [PATCH vfs/for-next v3] " Andrei Vagin
2019-01-02 19:37 ` [PATCH vfs/for-next v2] " Andrei Vagin
2019-01-02 19:37 ` [PATCH vfs/for-next v4] " Andrei Vagin
2019-01-02 20:02 ` Al Viro [this message]
2019-01-02 21:06 ` Andrei Vagin
2019-01-03 0:26 ` David Howells
2019-01-03 0:43 ` Andrei Vagin
2019-01-03 1:00 ` Andrei Vagin
2019-01-03 3:54 ` [PATCH vfs/for-next v6] " Andrei Vagin
2019-01-03 8:32 ` Al Viro
2019-01-03 17:34 ` Andrei Vagin
2019-01-03 21:54 ` David Howells
2019-01-02 22:26 ` [PATCH vfs/for-next v2] " David Howells
2019-01-02 23:06 ` Andrei Vagin
2019-01-02 23:31 ` Andrei Vagin
2019-01-03 0:33 ` David Howells
2019-01-03 13:41 ` David Howells
2019-01-03 13:42 ` David Howells
2019-01-03 15:27 ` David Howells
2019-01-03 15:44 ` David Howells
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