6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
[ Upstream commit d1ca8698ca1332625d83ea0d753747be66f9906d ]
It's called from spufs_fill_dir(), and caller of that will do spufs_rmdir() in case of failure. That does remove everything we'd managed to create, but... the problem dentry is still negative. IOW, it needs to be explicitly dropped.
Fixes: 3f51dd91c807 "[PATCH] spufs: fix spufs_fill_dir error path" Signed-off-by: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c index 70236d1df3d3e..793c005607cf0 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c @@ -192,8 +192,10 @@ static int spufs_fill_dir(struct dentry *dir, return -ENOMEM; ret = spufs_new_file(dir->d_sb, dentry, files->ops, files->mode & mode, files->size, ctx); - if (ret) + if (ret) { + dput(dentry); return ret; + } files++; } return 0;