In ocfs2_dentry_attach_lock(), if unable to get the dentry lock, we need to
call iput(inode) because a failure here means no d_instantiate(), which means
the normally matching iput() will not be called during dput(dentry).
This patch fixes the oops that accompanies the following message:
(3996,1):dlm_empty_lockres:2708 ERROR: lockres W00000000000000000a1046b06a4382 still has local locks!
kernel BUG in dlm_empty_lockres at /rpmbuild/smushran/BUILD/ocfs2-1.4.2/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmmaster.c:2709!
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
else
mlog_errno(ret);
+ /*
+ * In case of error, manually free the allocation and do the iput().
+ * We need to do this because error here means no d_instantiate(),
+ * which means iput() will not be called during dput(dentry).
+ */
+ if (ret < 0 && !alias) {
+ ocfs2_lock_res_free(&dl->dl_lockres);
+ BUG_ON(dl->dl_count != 1);
+ spin_lock(&dentry_attach_lock);
+ dentry->d_fsdata = NULL;
+ spin_unlock(&dentry_attach_lock);
+ kfree(dl);
+ iput(inode);
+ }
+
dput(alias);
return ret;