4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: "Yan, Zheng" zyan@redhat.com
[ Upstream commit 8b8f53af1ed9df88a4c0fbfdf3db58f62060edf3 ]
In any case, d_splice_alias() does not drop reference of original dentry.
Signed-off-by: "Yan, Zheng" zyan@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton jlayton@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov idryomov@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/ceph/inode.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/fs/ceph/inode.c +++ b/fs/ceph/inode.c @@ -1077,6 +1077,7 @@ static struct dentry *splice_dentry(stru if (IS_ERR(realdn)) { pr_err("splice_dentry error %ld %p inode %p ino %llx.%llx\n", PTR_ERR(realdn), dn, in, ceph_vinop(in)); + dput(dn); dn = realdn; /* note realdn contains the error */ goto out; } else if (realdn) {