debugfs: fix refcount imbalance in start_creating
commit 0ee9608c upstream. In debugfs' start_creating(), we pin the file system to safely access its root. When we failed to create a file, we unpin the file system via failed_creating() to release the mount count and eventually the reference of the vfsmount. However, when we run into an error during lookup_one_len() when still in start_creating(), we only release the parent's mutex but not so the reference on the mount. Looks like it was done in the past, but after splitting portions of __create_file() into start_creating() and end_creating() via 190afd81 ("debugfs: split the beginning and the end of __create_file() off"), this seemed missed. Noticed during code review. Fixes: 190afd81 ("debugfs: split the beginning and the end of __create_file() off") Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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