From 1be4a0900be5d2c2fd9cd012e3a153e1ea47b96a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 13:36:01 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] namei fixes (5/19) fix for too early mntput() in open_namei() - we pin path.mnt down for the duration of __do_follow_link(). Otherwise we could get the fs where our symlink lived unmounted while we were in __do_follow_link(). That would end up with dentry of symlink staying pinned down through the fs shutdown. Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/namei.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index e42f7c35545a..020fb8c8d1cd 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1524,8 +1524,10 @@ int open_namei(const char * pathname, int flag, int mode, struct nameidata *nd) error = security_inode_follow_link(path.dentry, nd); if (error) goto exit_dput; + mntget(path.mnt); error = __do_follow_link(path.dentry, nd); dput(path.dentry); + mntput(path.mnt); path.mnt = nd->mnt; if (error) return error;