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Subject[PATCH 1/9] vfs: fix double put after complete_walk()
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From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

complete_walk() already puts nd->path, no need to do it again at cleanup time.

This would result in Oopses if triggered, apparently the codepath is not too
well exercised.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
fs/namei.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index e2ba628..f79aef1 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2261,7 +2261,7 @@ static struct file *do_last(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path,
/* Why this, you ask? _Now_ we might have grown LOOKUP_JUMPED... */
error = complete_walk(nd);
if (error)
- goto exit;
+ return ERR_PTR(error);
error = -EISDIR;
if (S_ISDIR(nd->inode->i_mode))
goto exit;
--
1.7.7


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