[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "path_openat(): fix double fput()" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Thu May 21 20:37:27 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    path_openat(): fix double fput()

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt1.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 037617df5110d7ac7f10237375761f538df2d3bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 22:53:15 -0400
Subject: path_openat(): fix double fput()

commit f15133df088ecadd141ea1907f2c96df67c729f0 upstream.

path_openat() jumps to the wrong place after do_tmpfile() - it has
already done path_cleanup() (as part of path_lookupat() called by
do_tmpfile()), so doing that again can lead to double fput().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 fs/namei.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 3abfbda..b4d2182 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -3209,7 +3209,7 @@ static struct file *path_openat(int dfd, struct filename *pathname,

 	if (unlikely(file->f_flags & __O_TMPFILE)) {
 		error = do_tmpfile(dfd, pathname, nd, flags, op, file, &opened);
-		goto out;
+		goto out2;
 	}

 	error = path_init(dfd, pathname->name, flags, nd);
@@ -3239,6 +3239,7 @@ static struct file *path_openat(int dfd, struct filename *pathname,
 	}
 out:
 	path_cleanup(nd);
+out2:
 	if (!(opened & FILE_OPENED)) {
 		BUG_ON(!error);
 		put_filp(file);
--
1.9.1





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