Hello!
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:26:47AM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > Searching for inode leakage in NFS code (seen in 2.6.14 and 2.6.15 at least,
> > have not tried earlier versions), I see suspicious place in
> > d_instantiate_unique (the only user happens to be NFS).
> > There if we have found aliased dentry that we return, inode reference is
> > not dropped and inode is not attached anywhere, so it seems the reference
> > to inode is leaked in that case.
> Yep, that looks like it ought to be the correct behaviour. Could you
> please also add a note to this effect in the DocBook header for
> d_instantiate_unique?
Sure.
--- fs/dcache.c.orig 2006-01-05 02:28:57.000000000 +0200
+++ fs/dcache.c 2006-01-05 10:04:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -808,10 +808,14 @@ void d_instantiate(struct dentry *entry,
*
* Fill in inode information in the entry. On success, it returns NULL.
* If an unhashed alias of "entry" already exists, then we return the
- * aliased dentry instead.
+ * aliased dentry instead and drop one reference to inode.
*
* Note that in order to avoid conflicts with rename() etc, the caller
* had better be holding the parent directory semaphore.
+ *
+ * This also assumes that the inode count has been incremented
+ * (or otherwise set) by the caller to indicate that it is now
+ * in use by the dcache.
*/
struct dentry *d_instantiate_unique(struct dentry *entry, struct inode *inode)
{
@@ -838,6 +842,7 @@ struct dentry *d_instantiate_unique(stru
dget_locked(alias);
spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
BUG_ON(!d_unhashed(alias));
+ iput(inode);
return alias;
}
list_add(&entry->d_alias, &inode->i_dentry);
Bye,
Oleg
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