From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Tristan Ye , Takashi Iwai , "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: [PATCH 4.4 037/103] proc: Fix unbalanced hard link numbers Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 22:09:03 +0200 Message-Id: <20170523200900.338028653@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20170523200856.903752266@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20170523200856.903752266@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Takashi Iwai commit d66bb1607e2d8d384e53f3d93db5c18483c8c4f7 upstream. proc_create_mount_point() forgot to increase the parent's nlink, and it resulted in unbalanced hard link numbers, e.g. /proc/fs shows one less than expected. Fixes: eb6d38d5427b ("proc: Allow creating permanently empty directories...") Reported-by: Tristan Ye Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/proc/generic.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/fs/proc/generic.c +++ b/fs/proc/generic.c @@ -469,6 +469,7 @@ struct proc_dir_entry *proc_create_mount ent->data = NULL; ent->proc_fops = NULL; ent->proc_iops = NULL; + parent->nlink++; if (proc_register(parent, ent) < 0) { kfree(ent); parent->nlink--;