Thread (198 messages) 198 messages, 4 authors, 2016-07-26
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[PATCH 4.6 184/203] ovl: fix dentry leak for default_permissions

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2016-07-25 21:50:56
Also in: lkml

4.6-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Miklos Szeredi <redacted>

commit a4859d75944a726533ab86d24bb5ffd1b2b7d6cc upstream.

When using the 'default_permissions' mount option, ovl_permission() on
non-directories was missing a dput(alias), resulting in "BUG Dentry still
in use".

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <redacted>
Fixes: 8d3095f4ad47 ("ovl: default permissions")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/overlayfs/inode.c |    8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
@@ -121,16 +121,18 @@ int ovl_permission(struct inode *inode,
 
 		err = vfs_getattr(&realpath, &stat);
 		if (err)
-			return err;
+			goto out_dput;
 
+		err = -ESTALE;
 		if ((stat.mode ^ inode->i_mode) & S_IFMT)
-			return -ESTALE;
+			goto out_dput;
 
 		inode->i_mode = stat.mode;
 		inode->i_uid = stat.uid;
 		inode->i_gid = stat.gid;
 
-		return generic_permission(inode, mask);
+		err = generic_permission(inode, mask);
+		goto out_dput;
 	}
 
 	/* Careful in RCU walk mode */

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