incidentally, securityfs_recursive_remove() is broken without that - it leaks dentries, since simple_recursive_removal() does not expect anything of that sort. It could be worked around by dput() in remove_one() callback, but it's easier to just drop that double-get stuff.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> --- security/inode.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/security/inode.c b/security/inode.c index 3913501621fa..93460eab8216 100644 --- a/security/inode.c +++ b/security/inode.c @@ -159,7 +159,6 @@ static struct dentry *securityfs_create_dentry(const char *name, umode_t mode, inode->i_fop = fops; } d_instantiate(dentry, inode); - dget(dentry); inode_unlock(dir); return dentry; @@ -306,7 +305,6 @@ void securityfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry) simple_rmdir(dir, dentry); else simple_unlink(dir, dentry); - dput(dentry); } inode_unlock(dir); simple_release_fs(&mount, &mount_count); -- 2.39.5