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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2020-03-12 18:25:20 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-03-20 10:54:16 +0100
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cifs_atomic_open(): fix double-put on late allocation failure
commit d9a9f4849fe0c9d560851ab22a85a666cddfdd24 upstream. several iterations of ->atomic_open() calling conventions ago, we used to need fput() if ->atomic_open() failed at some point after successful finish_open(). Now (since 2016) it's not needed - struct file carries enough state to make fput() work regardless of the point in struct file lifecycle and discarding it on failure exits in open() got unified. Unfortunately, I'd missed the fact that we had an instance of ->atomic_open() (cifs one) that used to need that fput(), as well as the stale comment in finish_open() demanding such late failure handling. Trivially fixed... Fixes: fe9ec8291fca "do_last(): take fput() on error after opening to out:" Cc: stable@kernel.org # v4.7+ Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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@@ -606,3 +606,10 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
dentry separately, and it now has request_mask and query_flags arguments
to specify the fields and sync type requested by statx. Filesystems not
supporting any statx-specific features may ignore the new arguments.
+--
+[mandatory]
+
+ [should've been added in 2016] stale comment in finish_open()
+ nonwithstanding, failure exits in ->atomic_open() instances should
+ *NOT* fput() the file, no matter what. Everything is handled by the
+ caller.