Re: [PATCH] ecryptfs: remove unneeded buggy code in ecryptfs_do_create()

From: Tyler Hicks
Date: Thu Oct 09 2014 - 18:26:37 EST


Hi Alexey - thanks for the patch.

On 2014-09-23 00:39:31, Alexey Khoroshilov wrote:
> There is a bug in error handling of lock_parent() in ecryptfs_do_create():
> lock_parent() acquries mutex even if dget_parent() fails, so mutex should be unlocked anyway.
>
> But dget_parent() does not fail, so the patch just removes unneeded buggy code.
>
> Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@xxxxxxxxx>

This looks good to me and I've included it in the pull request that I
just sent to Linus. Thanks!

Tyler

> ---
> fs/ecryptfs/inode.c | 7 -------
> 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
> index d4a9431ec73c..97735c75085f 100644
> --- a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
> @@ -192,12 +192,6 @@ ecryptfs_do_create(struct inode *directory_inode,
>
> lower_dentry = ecryptfs_dentry_to_lower(ecryptfs_dentry);
> lower_dir_dentry = lock_parent(lower_dentry);
> - if (IS_ERR(lower_dir_dentry)) {
> - ecryptfs_printk(KERN_ERR, "Error locking directory of "
> - "dentry\n");
> - inode = ERR_CAST(lower_dir_dentry);
> - goto out;
> - }
> rc = vfs_create(lower_dir_dentry->d_inode, lower_dentry, mode, true);
> if (rc) {
> printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Failure to create dentry in lower fs; "
> @@ -215,7 +209,6 @@ ecryptfs_do_create(struct inode *directory_inode,
> fsstack_copy_inode_size(directory_inode, lower_dir_dentry->d_inode);
> out_lock:
> unlock_dir(lower_dir_dentry);
> -out:
> return inode;
> }
>
> --
> 1.9.1
>

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