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

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 12:39:40PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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

Yup, identical patch, sorry I missed that one, hopefully it hits Linus's
tree soon.

thanks,

greg k-h