[PATCH] staging: erofs: set sb->s_root to NULL when failing from __getname()

Gao Xiang hsiangkao at aol.com
Mon May 6 12:13:33 UTC 2019


Hi Chengguang,

On 2019/5/6 ??????7:01, Chengguang Xu wrote:
> Set sb->s_root to NULL when failing from __getname(),
> so that we can avoid double dput and unnecessary operations
> in generic_shutdown_super().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519 at gmail.com>

Thanks for catching this issue and it makes sense.

Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25 at huawei.com>

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

> ---
>  drivers/staging/erofs/super.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/erofs/super.c b/drivers/staging/erofs/super.c
> index 15c784fba879..c8981662a49b 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/erofs/super.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/erofs/super.c
> @@ -459,6 +459,7 @@ static int erofs_read_super(struct super_block *sb,
>  	 */
>  err_devname:
>  	dput(sb->s_root);
> +	sb->s_root = NULL;
>  err_iget:
>  #ifdef EROFS_FS_HAS_MANAGED_CACHE
>  	iput(sbi->managed_cache);
> 


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