Re: [PATCH] fs: fix possible extra iput() in do_unlinkat()

[Christian Brauner]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2023 14:11:29 +0100, Luís Henriques wrote:
> Because inode is being initialised before checking if dentry is negative,
> and the ihold() is only done if the dentry is *not* negative, the cleanup
> code may end-up doing an extra iput() on that inode.
> 
> 

Not a bug afaict but as Mateusz points out it's confusing.
So I took it with a changed commit message:

    fs: move d_is_negative() further up

    The code is confusing because inode is dereferenced before the
    d_is_negative() check. Make it clear that iput() isn't called further
    below.

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Applied to the vfs.misc branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.misc branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

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tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
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[1/1] fs: fix possible extra iput() in do_unlinkat()
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/b99cf757431d