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


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