dcache reference leak in 2.1.47

Andreas Schwab (schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)
Mon, 28 Jul 97 11:01:25 +0200

When sys_symlink fails with EEXIST it leaks a reference on the dentry for
the new name.

--- linux-2.1.47/fs/namei.c.~11~ Fri Jul 25 21:13:39 1997
+++ linux-2.1.47/fs/namei.c Sat Jul 26 13:24:04 1997
@@ -904,7 +904,7 @@

error = -EEXIST;
if (dentry->d_inode)
- goto exit;
+ goto exit_dput;

dir = lock_parent(dentry);

@@ -926,6 +926,7 @@

exit_lock:
up(&dir->i_sem);
+exit_dput:
dput(dentry);
exit:
return error;

-- 
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