vfs - fix dentry ref count in do_lookup()

There is a ref count problem in fs/namei.c:do_lookup().

When walking in ref-walk mode, if follow_managed() returns a fail we
need to drop dentry and possibly vfsmount.  Clean up properly,
as we do in the other caller of follow_managed().

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index b753192d..7d77f24 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1272,8 +1272,10 @@ done:
 	path->mnt = mnt;
 	path->dentry = dentry;
 	err = follow_managed(path, nd->flags);
-	if (unlikely(err < 0))
+	if (unlikely(err < 0)) {
+		path_put_conditional(path, nd);
 		return err;
+	}
 	*inode = path->dentry->d_inode;
 	return 0;