From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Subject: [RFC][PATCH] devpts: Must release s_umount on error Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:33:30 -0800 Message-ID: <20090129063330.GB22898@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox , hpa@zytor.com, hch@lst.de Cc: serue@us.ibm.com, "David C. Hansen" , Containers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sukadev@us.ibm.com List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:57:12 -0800 Subject: [RFC][PATCH] devpts: Must release s_umount on error We should drop the ->s_umount mutex if an error occurs after the sget()/grab_super() call. This was introduced when adding support for multiple instances of devpts and noticed during a code review/reorg. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu --- fs/devpts/inode.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/devpts/inode.c b/fs/devpts/inode.c index d008105..ad186b4 100644 --- a/fs/devpts/inode.c +++ b/fs/devpts/inode.c @@ -390,6 +390,7 @@ static int new_pts_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type, int flags, fail: dput(mnt->mnt_sb->s_root); + up_write(&mnt->mnt_sb->s_umount); deactivate_super(mnt->mnt_sb); return err; } @@ -479,6 +480,7 @@ static int init_pts_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type, int flags, err = mknod_ptmx(mnt->mnt_sb); if (err) { dput(mnt->mnt_sb->s_root); + up_write(&mnt->mnt_sb->s_umount); deactivate_super(mnt->mnt_sb); } -- 1.5.2.5