Re: [PATCH v4] fs: umount on symlink leaks mnt count

[Jeff Layton]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:30:23 +0400
Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> v4: description corrected
> v3: patch inline
> 
> Currently umount on symlink blocks following umount:
> 
> /vz is separate mount
> 
> # ls /vz/ -al | grep test
> drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root       4096 Jul 19 01:14 testdir
> lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root         11 Jul 19 01:16 testlink -> /vz/testdir
> # umount -l /vz/testlink
> umount: /vz/testlink: not mounted (expected)
> 
> # lsof /vz
> # umount /vz
> umount: /vz: device is busy. (unexpected)
> 
> In this case mountpoint_last() gets an extra refcount on path->mnt
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/namei.c |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
> index 985c6f3..9eb787e 100644
> --- a/fs/namei.c
> +++ b/fs/namei.c
> @@ -2256,9 +2256,10 @@ done:
>  		goto out;
>  	}
>  	path->dentry = dentry;
> -	path->mnt = mntget(nd->path.mnt);
> +	path->mnt = nd->path.mnt;
>  	if (should_follow_link(dentry, nd->flags & LOOKUP_FOLLOW))
>  		return 1;
> +	mntget(path->mnt);
>  	follow_mount(path);
>  	error = 0;
>  out:

Looks correct, I think...

Acked-by:
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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