This reverts commit 8b8f53af1ed9df88a4c0fbfdf3db58f62060edf3.
splice_dentry() is used by three places. For two places, req->r_dentry is passed to splice_dentry(). In the case of error, req->r_dentry does not get updated. So splice_dentry() should not drop reference.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #4.18 Signed-off-by: "Yan, Zheng" zyan@redhat.com --- fs/ceph/inode.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/ceph/inode.c b/fs/ceph/inode.c index c6bbb7aa99e4..375924b2bc86 100644 --- a/fs/ceph/inode.c +++ b/fs/ceph/inode.c @@ -1140,7 +1140,6 @@ static struct dentry *splice_dentry(struct dentry *dn, struct inode *in) if (IS_ERR(realdn)) { pr_err("splice_dentry error %ld %p inode %p ino %llx.%llx\n", PTR_ERR(realdn), dn, in, ceph_vinop(in)); - dput(dn); dn = realdn; /* note realdn contains the error */ goto out; } else if (realdn) {