From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oleg Drokin Subject: [PATCH] Fix mountpoint reference leakage in linkat Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 15:41:58 -0500 Message-ID: <1391200918-29185-1-git-send-email-green@linuxhacker.ru> Cc: Oleg Drokin To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jlayton@redhat.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Recent changes to retry on ESTALE in linkat (commit 442e31ca5a49e398351b2954b51f578353fdf210) introduced a mountpoint reference leak and a small memory leak in case a filesystem link operation returns ESTALE which is pretty normal for distributed filesystems like lustre, nfs and so on. Free old_path in such a case. Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin: --- fs/namei.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index bcb838e..e620937 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -3931,6 +3931,7 @@ out_dput: goto retry; } if (retry_estale(error, how)) { + path_put(&old_path); how |= LOOKUP_REVAL; goto retry; } -- 1.8.5.3