Patch "pstore: drop file opened reference count" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "pstore: drop file opened reference count" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    pstore: drop file opened reference count

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     pstore-drop-file-opened-reference-count.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 52d210d961a62a9662e27f14d6505d6741b2fb02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 12:43:49 +0800
Subject: pstore: drop file opened reference count

From: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com>

commit 52d210d961a62a9662e27f14d6505d6741b2fb02 upstream.

In ee1d267423a1 ("pstore: add pstore unregister") I added:
	.owner = THIS_MODULE,
in both pstore_fs_type and pstore_file_operations to increase a reference
count when pstore filesystem is mounted and pstore file is opened.

But, it's repetitive. There is no need to increase the opened reference
count. We only need to increase the mounted reference count. When a file
is opened, the filesystem can't be unmounted. Hence the pstore module
can't be unloaded either.

So I drop the opened reference count in this patch.

Fixes: ee1d267423a1 ("pstore: add pstore unregister")
Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/pstore/inode.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/pstore/inode.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/inode.c
@@ -178,7 +178,6 @@ static loff_t pstore_file_llseek(struct
 }
 
 static const struct file_operations pstore_file_operations = {
-	.owner		= THIS_MODULE,
 	.open		= pstore_file_open,
 	.read		= pstore_file_read,
 	.llseek		= pstore_file_llseek,


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from geliangtang@163.com are

queue-4.4/pstore-drop-file-opened-reference-count.patch