Patch "9p: don't leave a half-initialized inode sitting around" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

Patch "9p: don't leave a half-initialized inode sitting around" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    9p: don't leave a half-initialized inode sitting around

to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     9p-don-t-leave-a-half-initialized-inode-sitting-around.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 0a73d0a204a4a04a1e110539c5a524ae51f91d6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 10:34:29 -0400
Subject: 9p: don't leave a half-initialized inode sitting around

From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

commit 0a73d0a204a4a04a1e110539c5a524ae51f91d6d upstream.

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

---
 fs/9p/vfs_inode.c      |    3 +--
 fs/9p/vfs_inode_dotl.c |    3 +--
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
+++ b/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
@@ -540,8 +540,7 @@ static struct inode *v9fs_qid_iget(struc
 	unlock_new_inode(inode);
 	return inode;
 error:
-	unlock_new_inode(inode);
-	iput(inode);
+	iget_failed(inode);
 	return ERR_PTR(retval);
 
 }
--- a/fs/9p/vfs_inode_dotl.c
+++ b/fs/9p/vfs_inode_dotl.c
@@ -149,8 +149,7 @@ static struct inode *v9fs_qid_iget_dotl(
 	unlock_new_inode(inode);
 	return inode;
 error:
-	unlock_new_inode(inode);
-	iput(inode);
+	iget_failed(inode);
 	return ERR_PTR(retval);
 
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk are

queue-4.1/9p-forgetting-to-cancel-request-on-interrupted-zero-copy-rpc.patch
queue-4.1/9p-don-t-leave-a-half-initialized-inode-sitting-around.patch
queue-4.1/p9_client_write-avoid-double-p9_free_req.patch