From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>,
Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
netfs@lists.linux.dev, linux-afs@lists.infradead.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] cachefiles: Fix excess dput() after end_removing()
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:35:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4001609.1774391729@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
When cachefiles_cull() calls cachefiles_bury_object(), the latter eats the
former's ref on the victim dentry that it obtained from
cachefiles_lookup_for_cull(). However, commit 7bb1eb45e43c left the dput
of the victim in place, resulting in occasional:
WARNING: fs/dcache.c:829 at dput.part.0+0xf5/0x110, CPU#7: cachefilesd/11831
cachefiles_cull+0x8c/0xe0 [cachefiles]
cachefiles_daemon_cull+0xcd/0x120 [cachefiles]
cachefiles_daemon_write+0x14e/0x1d0 [cachefiles]
vfs_write+0xc3/0x480
...
reports.
Fix this by removing the dput().
Fixes: 7bb1eb45e43c ("VFS: introduce start_removing_dentry()")
Reported-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
---
fs/cachefiles/namei.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/namei.c b/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
index bdac2f33edf3..e2023e78e4df 100644
--- a/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
+++ b/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
@@ -795,7 +795,6 @@ int cachefiles_cull(struct cachefiles_cache *cache, struct dentry *dir,
ret = cachefiles_bury_object(cache, NULL, dir, victim,
FSCACHE_OBJECT_WAS_CULLED);
- dput(victim);
if (ret < 0)
goto error;
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-24 22:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-24 22:35 David Howells [this message]
2026-03-24 22:50 ` [PATCH] cachefiles: Fix excess dput() after end_removing() David Howells
2026-03-25 12:57 ` Marc Dionne
2026-03-26 7:51 ` David Howells
2026-03-26 9:07 ` NeilBrown
2026-03-26 16:04 ` David Howells
2026-03-26 10:15 ` [PATCH v2] " David Howells
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