Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 12/21] fs/super.c: stop calling fscrypt_destroy_keyring() from __put_super()

From: Eric Biggers
Date: Sat Feb 25 2023 - 23:08:05 EST


On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 10:42:47PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit ec64036e68634231f5891faa2b7a81cdc5dcd001 ]
>
> Now that the key associated with the "test_dummy_operation" mount option
> is added on-demand when it's needed, rather than immediately when the
> filesystem is mounted, fscrypt_destroy_keyring() no longer needs to be
> called from __put_super() to avoid a memory leak on mount failure.
>
> Remove this call, which was causing confusion because it appeared to be
> a sleep-in-atomic bug (though it wasn't, for a somewhat-subtle reason).
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230208062107.199831-5-ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>

Why is this being backported?

- Eric