debugfs: fix refcount imbalance in start_creating
In debugfs' start_creating(), we pin the file system to safely access its root. When we failed to create a file, we unpin the file system via failed_creating() to release the mount count and eventually the reference of the vfsmount. However, when we run into an error during lookup_one_len() when still in start_creating(), we only release the parent's mutex but not so the reference on the mount. Looks like it was done in the past, but after splitting portions of __create_file() into start_creating() and end_creating() via190afd81e4
("debugfs: split the beginning and the end of __create_file() off"), this seemed missed. Noticed during code review. Fixes:190afd81e4
("debugfs: split the beginning and the end of __create_file() off") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.0+ Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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@ -271,8 +271,12 @@ static struct dentry *start_creating(const char *name, struct dentry *parent)
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dput(dentry);
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dentry = ERR_PTR(-EEXIST);
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}
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if (IS_ERR(dentry))
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if (IS_ERR(dentry)) {
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mutex_unlock(&d_inode(parent)->i_mutex);
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simple_release_fs(&debugfs_mount, &debugfs_mount_count);
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}
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return dentry;
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}
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