Re: [git pull] vfs patches, part 1

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Jun 19 2009 - 20:29:21 EST



Al? There does seem to be a leak there.

Linus

On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, hooanon05@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Didn't you forget path_put() for the new member before returning in the
> middle of do_filp_open()?
>
>
> J. R. Okajima
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> commit ccf163f67e7c4bf3890010a5a593eb62c3004a6a
> Author: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu Jun 18 23:26:34 2009 +0900
>
> vfs: nd->root in do_filp_open()
>
> commit 2a737871108de9ba8930f7650d549f1383767f8b
> "Cache root in nameidata"
> introduced a new member nd->root, but forgot to put it in
> do_filp_open().
>
> Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
> index 527119a..5b961eb 100644
> --- a/fs/namei.c
> +++ b/fs/namei.c
> @@ -1698,8 +1698,11 @@ struct file *do_filp_open(int dfd, const char *pathname,
> if (error)
> return ERR_PTR(error);
> error = path_walk(pathname, &nd);
> - if (error)
> + if (error) {
> + if (nd.root.mnt)
> + path_put(&nd.root);
> return ERR_PTR(error);
> + }
> if (unlikely(!audit_dummy_context()))
> audit_inode(pathname, nd.path.dentry);
>
> @@ -1759,6 +1762,8 @@ do_last:
> }
> filp = nameidata_to_filp(&nd, open_flag);
> mnt_drop_write(nd.path.mnt);
> + if (nd.root.mnt)
> + path_put(&nd.root);
> return filp;
> }
>
> @@ -1819,6 +1824,8 @@ ok:
> */
> if (will_write)
> mnt_drop_write(nd.path.mnt);
> + if (nd.root.mnt)
> + path_put(&nd.root);
> return filp;
>
> exit_mutex_unlock:
> @@ -1859,6 +1866,8 @@ do_link:
> * with "intent.open".
> */
> release_open_intent(&nd);
> + if (nd.root.mnt)
> + path_put(&nd.root);
> return ERR_PTR(error);
> }
> nd.flags &= ~LOOKUP_PARENT;
>
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