Re: [PATCH] vfs: Fix potential circular locking through setxattr() and removexattr()

[David Howells]

Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz> wrote:

> > +   error = strncpy_from_user(kname, name, sizeof(kname));
> > +   if (error == 0 || error == sizeof(kname))
> > +           error = -ERANGE;
> > +   if (error < 0)
> > +           return error;
> 
> Missing fdput() here.

Thanks.  I think Christian is altering the patch to use auto-destruction
constructs (CLASS()).

David