[Cluster-devel] GFS2: Fix ref count bug relating to atomic_open

Steven Whitehouse swhiteho at redhat.com
Thu Nov 21 18:53:39 UTC 2013


>From ea0341e071527d5cec350917b01ab901af09d758 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho at redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 18:47:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] GFS2: Fix ref count bug relating to atomic_open

In the case that atomic_open calls finish_no_open() with
the dentry that was supplied to gfs2_atomic_open() an
extra reference count is required. This patch fixes that
issue preventing a bug trap triggering at umount time.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho at redhat.com>

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/inode.c b/fs/gfs2/inode.c
index 1615df1..7119504 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/inode.c
@@ -1171,8 +1171,11 @@ static int gfs2_atomic_open(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
 	if (d != NULL)
 		dentry = d;
 	if (dentry->d_inode) {
-		if (!(*opened & FILE_OPENED))
+		if (!(*opened & FILE_OPENED)) {
+			if (d == NULL)
+				dget(dentry);
 			return finish_no_open(file, dentry);
+		}
 		dput(d);
 		return 0;
 	}
-- 
1.8.3.1






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