From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Al Viro Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix mountpoint reference leakage in linkat Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 22:30:14 +0000 Message-ID: <20140131223013.GP10323@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <1391200918-29185-1-git-send-email-green@linuxhacker.ru> <20140131210334.GO10323@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20140131163231.2585a08d@tlielax.poochiereds.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Oleg Drokin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Layton Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140131163231.2585a08d@tlielax.poochiereds.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 04:32:31PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote: > done_path_create(&new_path, new_dentry); > + path_put(&old_path); ... and the filesystem in question isn't pinned anymore, so it can be unmounted, except that > if (delegated_inode) { > error = break_deleg_wait(&delegated_inode); this does an iput() on delegated_inode. And umount really doesn't like finding pinned inodes. Sorry, no go. I'm going with Oleg's patch with second path_put() added.