From df7f99670a4c76f269ae57ce91876b309417a316 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joel Becker Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 01:09:49 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] configfs: Don't try to d_delete() negative dentries. When configfs is faking mkdir() on its subsystem or default group objects, it starts by adding a negative dentry. It then tries to instantiate the group. If that should fail, it must clean up after itself. I was using d_delete() here, but configfs_attach_group() promises to return an empty dentry on error. d_delete() explodes with the entry dentry. Let's try d_drop() instead. The unhashing is what we want for our dentry. Signed-off-by: Joel Becker --- fs/configfs/dir.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/configfs/dir.c b/fs/configfs/dir.c index 3313dd19f543..b11d7342eef2 100644 --- a/fs/configfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/configfs/dir.c @@ -689,7 +689,8 @@ static int create_default_group(struct config_group *parent_group, sd = child->d_fsdata; sd->s_type |= CONFIGFS_USET_DEFAULT; } else { - d_delete(child); + BUG_ON(child->d_inode); + d_drop(child); dput(child); } } @@ -1683,7 +1684,8 @@ int configfs_register_subsystem(struct configfs_subsystem *subsys) err = configfs_attach_group(sd->s_element, &group->cg_item, dentry); if (err) { - d_delete(dentry); + BUG_ON(dentry->d_inode); + d_drop(dentry); dput(dentry); } else { spin_lock(&configfs_dirent_lock); -- 2.20.1