4.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
commit d202797f480c0e5918e7642d6716cdc62b3ab5c9 upstream.
Doing iput() after path_put() is wrong.
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/misc/cxl/api.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/misc/cxl/api.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/api.c
@@ -103,15 +103,15 @@ static struct file *cxl_getfile(const ch
d_instantiate(path.dentry, inode);
file = alloc_file(&path, OPEN_FMODE(flags), fops);
- if (IS_ERR(file))
- goto err_dput;
+ if (IS_ERR(file)) {
+ path_put(&path);
+ goto err_fs;
+ }
file->f_flags = flags & (O_ACCMODE | O_NONBLOCK);
file->private_data = priv;
return file;
-err_dput:
- path_put(&path);
err_inode:
iput(inode);
err_fs:
