[PATCH 5.4 136/154] spufs: fix a leak on spufs_new_file() failure

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-04-08T12:08:20Z

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

[ Upstream commit d1ca8698ca1332625d83ea0d753747be66f9906d ]

It's called from spufs_fill_dir(), and caller of that will do
spufs_rmdir() in case of failure. That does remove everything
we'd managed to create, but... the problem dentry is still
negative. IOW, it needs to be explicitly dropped.

Fixes: 3f51dd91c807 "[PATCH] spufs: fix spufs_fill_dir error path"
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c
index 99e688498a9cb..1183e264ff421 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c
@@ -189,8 +189,10 @@ static int spufs_fill_dir(struct dentry *dir,
return -ENOMEM;
ret = spufs_new_file(dir->d_sb, dentry, files->ops,
files->mode & mode, files->size, ctx);
- if (ret)
+ if (ret) {
+ dput(dentry);
return ret;
+ }
files++;
}
return 0;
--
2.39.5