Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] fs: avoid fdput() after failed fdget() in kernel_read_file_from_fd()

From: Mimi Zohar
Date: Fri May 15 2020 - 15:23:02 EST


On Wed, 2020-05-13 at 17:33 -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> Fix kernel_read_file_from_fd() to avoid fdput() after a failed fdget().
> fdput() doesn't do fput() on this file since FDPUT_FPUT isn't set
> in fd.flags. Fix it anyway since failed fdget() doesn't require
> a fdput().
>
> This was introduced in a commit that added kernel_read_file_from_fd() as
> a wrapper for the VFS common kernel_read_file().
>
> Fixes: b844f0ecbc56 ("vfs: define kernel_copy_file_from_fd()")
> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, Shuah.

Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>