[PATCH 3.10 76/85] Fix mountpoint reference leakage in linkat

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-03-21T00:27:02Z

From: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>

commit d22e6338db7f613dd4f6095c190682fcc519e4b7 upstream.

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.

[AV: there was another missing path_put() nearby - on the previous
goto retry]

Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin: <green@linuxhacker.ru>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
fs/namei.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -3655,6 +3655,7 @@ retry:
out_dput:
done_path_create(&new_path, new_dentry);
if (retry_estale(error, how)) {
+ path_put(&old_path);
how |= LOOKUP_REVAL;
goto retry;
}