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authorJosef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>2016-08-10 14:46:27 -0400
committerJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>2016-08-11 11:42:08 -0400
commit502aa0a5be633e6558574ebcf63b65afdfbfcd7a (patch)
treef1998fcb7817d265fc5ac53fb21db03a80e0a6eb /fs/nfsd
parent29b4817d4018df78086157ea3a55c1d9424a7cfc (diff)
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nfsd: fix dentry refcounting on create
b44061d0b9 introduced a dentry ref counting bug. Previously we were grabbing one ref to dchild in nfsd_create(), but with the creation of nfsd_create_locked() we have a ref for dchild from the lookup in nfsd_create(), and then another ref in nfsd_create_locked(). The ref from the lookup in nfsd_create() is never dropped and results in dentries still in use at unmount. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Fixes: b44061d0b9 "nfsd: reorganize nfsd_create" Reported-by: kernel test robot <xiaolong.ye@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/nfsd')
-rw-r--r--fs/nfsd/vfs.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
index ba944123167b..ff476e654b8f 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
@@ -1252,10 +1252,13 @@ nfsd_create(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp,
if (IS_ERR(dchild))
return nfserrno(host_err);
err = fh_compose(resfhp, fhp->fh_export, dchild, fhp);
- if (err) {
- dput(dchild);
+ /*
+ * We unconditionally drop our ref to dchild as fh_compose will have
+ * already grabbed its own ref for it.
+ */
+ dput(dchild);
+ if (err)
return err;
- }
return nfsd_create_locked(rqstp, fhp, fname, flen, iap, type,
rdev, resfhp);
}