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, Linus Torvalds , Al Viro Subject: [PATCH 4.17 62/63] cxl_getfile(): fix double-iput() on alloc_file() failures Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 14:25:08 +0200 Message-Id: <20180723122448.698367657@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180723122446.351334162@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180723122446.351334162@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Al Viro commit d202797f480c0e5918e7642d6716cdc62b3ab5c9 upstream. Doing iput() after path_put() is wrong. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/misc/cxl/api.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/misc/cxl/api.c +++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/api.c @@ -103,15 +103,15 @@ static struct file *cxl_getfile(const ch d_instantiate(path.dentry, inode); file = alloc_file(&path, OPEN_FMODE(flags), fops); - if (IS_ERR(file)) - goto err_dput; + if (IS_ERR(file)) { + path_put(&path); + goto err_fs; + } file->f_flags = flags & (O_ACCMODE | O_NONBLOCK); file->private_data = priv; return file; -err_dput: - path_put(&path); err_inode: iput(inode); err_fs: