Re: [PATCH v2] configfs: Fix config_item refcnt error in __configfs_open_file()

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 12:35:10PM +0100, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> __configfs_open_file() used to use configfs_get_config_item, but changed
> in commit b0841eefd969 ("configfs: provide exclusion between IO and
> removals") to just call to_item. The error path still tries to clean up
> the reference, incorrectly decrementing the ref count.

This should already be covered by:

http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/configfs.git/commitdiff/14fbbc8297728e880070f7b077b3301a8c698ef9