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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

Pull vfs dentry reference count fix from Al Viro.

This fixes a possible inode_permission NULL pointer dereference (and
other problems) that were due to the root dentry count being decremented
too much.  In commit 48a066e72d97 ("RCU'd vfsmounts") the placement of
clearing the LOOKUP_RCU bit changed, and we then returned failure of
incrementing the lockref on the parent dentry with LOOKUP_RCU cleared.

But that meant we needed to go through the same cleanup routines that
the later failures did wrt LOOKUP_ROOT and nd->root.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fix bogus path_put() of nd->root after some unlazy_walk() failures
Linus Torvalds 11 years ago
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      fs/namei.c

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fs/namei.c

@@ -513,8 +513,7 @@ static int unlazy_walk(struct nameidata *nd, struct dentry *dentry)
 
 	if (!lockref_get_not_dead(&parent->d_lockref)) {
 		nd->path.dentry = NULL;	
-		rcu_read_unlock();
-		return -ECHILD;
+		goto out;
 	}
 
 	/*