Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs dentry reference count fix from Al Viro. This fixes a possible inode_permission NULL pointer dereference (and other problems) that were due to the root dentry count being decremented too much. In commit 48a066e7 ("RCU'd vfsmounts") the placement of clearing the LOOKUP_RCU bit changed, and we then returned failure of incrementing the lockref on the parent dentry with LOOKUP_RCU cleared. But that meant we needed to go through the same cleanup routines that the later failures did wrt LOOKUP_ROOT and nd->root. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: fix bogus path_put() of nd->root after some unlazy_walk() failures
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