Commit d870b4a1 authored by Al Viro's avatar Al Viro

fix bogus path_put() of nd->root after some unlazy_walk() failures

Failure to grab reference to parent dentry should go through the
same cleanup as nd->seq mismatch.  As it is, we might end up with
caller thinking it needs to path_put() nd->root, with obvious
nasty results once we'd hit that bug enough times to drive the
refcount of root dentry all the way to zero...
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
parent 2e7babfa
......@@ -513,8 +513,7 @@ static int unlazy_walk(struct nameidata *nd, struct dentry *dentry)
if (!lockref_get_not_dead(&parent->d_lockref)) {
nd->path.dentry = NULL;
rcu_read_unlock();
return -ECHILD;
goto out;
}
/*
......
Markdown is supported
0%
or
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment