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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-03-12 15:51:26 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-03-12 15:51:26 -0700
commit807f030b44ccbb26a346df6f6438628315d9ad98 (patch)
tree5c5bf61456bf8f6649fab5e60e8ef0e8985a713a
parent3cc6e2c599cdca573a8f347aea5da4c855ff5a78 (diff)
parentd9a9f4849fe0c9d560851ab22a85a666cddfdd24 (diff)
Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro: "A couple of fixes for old crap in ->atomic_open() instances" * 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: cifs_atomic_open(): fix double-put on late allocation failure gfs2_atomic_open(): fix O_EXCL|O_CREAT handling on cold dcache
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst8
-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/dir.c1
-rw-r--r--fs/gfs2/inode.c2
-rw-r--r--fs/open.c3
4 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
index f18506083ced..26c093969573 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
@@ -850,3 +850,11 @@ business doing so.
d_alloc_pseudo() is internal-only; uses outside of alloc_file_pseudo() are
very suspect (and won't work in modules). Such uses are very likely to
be misspelled d_alloc_anon().
+
+---
+
+**mandatory**
+
+[should've been added in 2016] stale comment in finish_open() nonwithstanding,
+failure exits in ->atomic_open() instances should *NOT* fput() the file,
+no matter what. Everything is handled by the caller.
diff --git a/fs/cifs/dir.c b/fs/cifs/dir.c
index 0ef099442f20..36e7b2fd2190 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/dir.c
@@ -555,7 +555,6 @@ cifs_atomic_open(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *direntry,
if (server->ops->close)
server->ops->close(xid, tcon, &fid);
cifs_del_pending_open(&open);
- fput(file);
rc = -ENOMEM;
}
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/inode.c b/fs/gfs2/inode.c
index 2716d56ed0a0..8294851a9dd9 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/inode.c
@@ -1248,7 +1248,7 @@ static int gfs2_atomic_open(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
if (!(file->f_mode & FMODE_OPENED))
return finish_no_open(file, d);
dput(d);
- return 0;
+ return excl && (flags & O_CREAT) ? -EEXIST : 0;
}
BUG_ON(d != NULL);
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 0788b3715731..b69d6eed67e6 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -860,9 +860,6 @@ cleanup_file:
* the return value of d_splice_alias(), then the caller needs to perform dput()
* on it after finish_open().
*
- * On successful return @file is a fully instantiated open file. After this, if
- * an error occurs in ->atomic_open(), it needs to clean up with fput().
- *
* Returns zero on success or -errno if the open failed.
*/
int finish_open(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry,