GIT: unionfs2-2.6.27.y: fs/unionfs/: Fix copyup_deleted_file dentry leak

Erez Zadok ezk at fsl.cs.sunysb.edu
Thu Aug 12 23:15:54 EDT 2010


commit 02e9f929061698f893a9370c4791f752e42f6a69
Author: Erez Zadok <ezk at cs.sunysb.edu>
Date:   Sun Mar 4 00:41:51 2007 -0500

    fs/unionfs/: Fix copyup_deleted_file dentry leak
    
    Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk at cs.sunysb.edu>
    Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek at cs.sunysb.edu>

diff --git a/fs/unionfs/commonfops.c b/fs/unionfs/commonfops.c
index 2664be9..aa7c75d 100644
--- a/fs/unionfs/commonfops.c
+++ b/fs/unionfs/commonfops.c
@@ -41,6 +41,15 @@ static int copyup_deleted_file(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry,
 	sprintf(name, ".unionfs%*.*lx",
 			i_inosize, i_inosize, hidden_dentry->d_inode->i_ino);
 
+	/*
+	 * Loop, looking for an unused temp name to copyup to.
+	 *
+	 * It's somewhat silly that we look for a free temp tmp name in the
+	 * source branch (bstart) instead of the dest branch (bindex), where
+	 * the final name will be created.  We _will_ catch it if somehow
+	 * the name exists in the dest branch, but it'd be nice to catch it
+	 * sooner than later.
+	 */
 	tmp_dentry = NULL;
 	do {
 		char *suffix = name + nlen - countersize;
@@ -58,7 +67,9 @@ static int copyup_deleted_file(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry,
 			err = PTR_ERR(tmp_dentry);
 			goto out;
 		}
+		/* don't dput here because of do-while condition eval order */
 	} while (tmp_dentry->d_inode != NULL);	/* need negative dentry */
+	dput(tmp_dentry);
 
 	err = copyup_named_file(dentry->d_parent->d_inode, file, name, bstart,
 				bindex, file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_size);


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