[patch][regression after 3.1] minixfs: misplaced checks lead todentry leak

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed Jan 04 2012 - 05:51:32 EST


bitmap size sanity checks should be done *before* allocating ->s_root;
there their cleanup on failure would be correct. As it is, we do iput()
on root inode, but leak the root dentry...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I realize that we are *very* late in this cycle, but this is (a) obvious and
obviously affecting only minixfs and (b) introduced in this cycle.

diff --git a/fs/minix/inode.c b/fs/minix/inode.c
index c811c19..8e4f5d8 100644
--- a/fs/minix/inode.c
+++ b/fs/minix/inode.c
@@ -262,23 +262,6 @@ static int minix_fill_super(struct super_block *s, void *data, int silent)
goto out_no_root;
}

- ret = -ENOMEM;
- s->s_root = d_alloc_root(root_inode);
- if (!s->s_root)
- goto out_iput;
-
- if (!(s->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
- if (sbi->s_version != MINIX_V3) /* s_state is now out from V3 sb */
- ms->s_state &= ~MINIX_VALID_FS;
- mark_buffer_dirty(bh);
- }
- if (!(sbi->s_mount_state & MINIX_VALID_FS))
- printk("MINIX-fs: mounting unchecked file system, "
- "running fsck is recommended\n");
- else if (sbi->s_mount_state & MINIX_ERROR_FS)
- printk("MINIX-fs: mounting file system with errors, "
- "running fsck is recommended\n");
-
/* Apparently minix can create filesystems that allocate more blocks for
* the bitmaps than needed. We simply ignore that, but verify it didn't
* create one with not enough blocks and bail out if so.
@@ -299,6 +282,23 @@ static int minix_fill_super(struct super_block *s, void *data, int silent)
goto out_iput;
}

+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ s->s_root = d_alloc_root(root_inode);
+ if (!s->s_root)
+ goto out_iput;
+
+ if (!(s->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
+ if (sbi->s_version != MINIX_V3) /* s_state is now out from V3 sb */
+ ms->s_state &= ~MINIX_VALID_FS;
+ mark_buffer_dirty(bh);
+ }
+ if (!(sbi->s_mount_state & MINIX_VALID_FS))
+ printk("MINIX-fs: mounting unchecked file system, "
+ "running fsck is recommended\n");
+ else if (sbi->s_mount_state & MINIX_ERROR_FS)
+ printk("MINIX-fs: mounting file system with errors, "
+ "running fsck is recommended\n");
+
return 0;

out_iput:
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