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ext4: fix missing iput of root inode for some mount error paths 

This assures that the root inode is not leaked, and that sb->s_root is
NULL, which will prevent generic_shutdown_super() from doing extra
work, including call sync_filesystem, which ultimately results in
ext4_sync_fs() getting called with an uninitialized struct super,
which is the cause of the crash noted in Kernel Bugzilla #26752.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26752

Signed-off-by: Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Manish Katiyar 2011-02-27 20:42:06 -05:00 committed by Theodore Ts'o
parent 6d9c85eb70
commit 32a9bb57d7
1 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -3521,17 +3521,16 @@ no_journal:
if (IS_ERR(root)) {
ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "get root inode failed");
ret = PTR_ERR(root);
root = NULL;
goto failed_mount4;
}
if (!S_ISDIR(root->i_mode) || !root->i_blocks || !root->i_size) {
iput(root);
ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "corrupt root inode, run e2fsck");
goto failed_mount4;
}
sb->s_root = d_alloc_root(root);
if (!sb->s_root) {
ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "get root dentry failed");
iput(root);
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto failed_mount4;
}
@ -3647,6 +3646,8 @@ cantfind_ext4:
goto failed_mount;
failed_mount4:
iput(root);
sb->s_root = NULL;
ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "mount failed");
destroy_workqueue(EXT4_SB(sb)->dio_unwritten_wq);
failed_mount_wq: