[PATCH 4/5 linux-next V2] cifs: fix incorrect reference count check

Jeff Layton jlayton at redhat.com
Mon Dec 9 04:03:21 MST 2013


On Sun,  8 Dec 2013 14:08:43 -0700
Tim Gardner <timg at tpi.com> wrote:

> The reference count on tlink can only be decremented if
> cifs_sb_tlink(cifs_sb) was used to acquire it. That only
> happens if open_file==NULL.
> 
> Cc: Steve French <sfrench at samba.org>
> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>
> Cc: Dean Gehnert <deang at tpi.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <timg at tpi.com>
> ---
> 
> V2 - this is a new patch in the V2 series.
> 
>  fs/cifs/inode.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/inode.c b/fs/cifs/inode.c
> index 3f710c6..e332038 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/inode.c
> @@ -2007,7 +2007,7 @@ cifs_set_file_size(struct inode *inode, struct iattr *attrs,
>  			CIFSSMBClose(xid, tcon, netfid);
>  		}
>  	}
> -	if (tlink)
> +	if (!open_file)
>  		cifs_put_tlink(tlink);
>  
>  set_size_out:


I don't see the bug here...

The only place tlink gets set to a non-NULL value is where
cifs_sb_tlink gets called. Am I missing something?

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>


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