[PATCH v2] debugfs: fix refcount imbalance in start_creating

[Daniel Borkmann]

In debugfs' start_creating(), we pin the file system to safely access
its root. When we failed to create a file, we unpin the file system via
failed_creating() to release the mount count and eventually the reference
of the vfsmount.

However, when we run into an error during lookup_one_len() when still
in start_creating(), we only release the parent's mutex but not so the
reference on the mount. Looks like it was done in the past, but after
splitting portions of __create_file() into start_creating() and
end_creating() via 190afd81e4a5 ("debugfs: split the beginning and the
end of __create_file() off"), this seemed missed. Noticed during code
review.

Fixes: 190afd81e4a5 ("debugfs: split the beginning and the end of __create_file() off")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 v1 -> v2:
 - Split original patch into two patches (tracefs and debugfs)

 fs/debugfs/inode.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/debugfs/inode.c b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
index c711be8..9c8d233 100644
--- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
@@ -271,8 +271,12 @@ static struct dentry *start_creating(const char *name, struct dentry *parent)
 		dput(dentry);
 		dentry = ERR_PTR(-EEXIST);
 	}
-	if (IS_ERR(dentry))
+
+	if (IS_ERR(dentry)) {
 		mutex_unlock(&d_inode(parent)->i_mutex);
+		simple_release_fs(&debugfs_mount, &debugfs_mount_count);
+	}
+
 	return dentry;
 }
 
-- 
1.9.3

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