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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix mountpoint reference leakage in linkat
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 22:30:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140131223013.GP10323@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140131163231.2585a08d@tlielax.poochiereds.net>

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 04:32:31PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:

>  	done_path_create(&new_path, new_dentry);
> +	path_put(&old_path);

... and the filesystem in question isn't pinned anymore, so it can be
unmounted, except that

>  	if (delegated_inode) {
>  		error = break_deleg_wait(&delegated_inode);

this does an iput() on delegated_inode.  And umount really doesn't
like finding pinned inodes.  Sorry, no go.

I'm going with Oleg's patch with second path_put() added.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-31 22:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-31 20:41 [PATCH] Fix mountpoint reference leakage in linkat Oleg Drokin
2014-01-31 20:52 ` Jeff Layton
2014-01-31 21:03 ` Al Viro
2014-01-31 21:13   ` Oleg Drokin
2014-01-31 21:32     ` Jeff Layton
2014-01-31 21:50       ` Oleg Drokin
2014-01-31 22:30       ` Al Viro [this message]
2014-01-31 22:34         ` [PATCH v2] vfs: " Oleg Drokin
2014-01-31 23:11         ` [PATCH] " Jeff Layton

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