Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: mmap: fix fput in error path v2

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Nov 06 2020 - 17:48:24 EST


On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 12:48:05 +0100 "Christian König" <ckoenig.leichtzumerken@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Patch "495c10cc1c0c CHROMIUM: dma-buf: restore args..."
> adds a workaround for a bug in mmap_region.
>
> As the comment states ->mmap() callback can change
> vma->vm_file and so we might call fput() on the wrong file.
>
> Revert the workaround and proper fix this in mmap_region.
>

Seems correct, best I can tell. Presumably all ->mmap() instances will
correctly fput() to original file* if they're rewriting vma->vm_file.