[PATCH] fuse: add missing iput() in fuse_lookup() error path

From: Luis Henriques

Date: Fri Dec 19 2025 - 12:43:23 EST


The inode use count needs to be dropped in the fuse_lookup() error path,
when there's an error returned by d_splice_alias().

(While there, remove extra white spaces before labels.)

Fixes: 5835f3390e35 ("fuse: use d_materialise_unique()")
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/fuse/dir.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/fuse/dir.c b/fs/fuse/dir.c
index 4b6b3d2758ff..75032b947a13 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/dir.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/dir.c
@@ -636,7 +636,7 @@ static struct dentry *fuse_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *entry,
newent = d_splice_alias(inode, entry);
err = PTR_ERR(newent);
if (IS_ERR(newent))
- goto out_err;
+ goto out_iput;

entry = newent ? newent : entry;
entry->d_time = epoch;
@@ -649,9 +649,9 @@ static struct dentry *fuse_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *entry,
fuse_advise_use_readdirplus(dir);
return newent;

- out_iput:
+out_iput:
iput(inode);
- out_err:
+out_err:
return ERR_PTR(err);
}