cxl_getfile(): fix double-iput() on alloc_file() failures

commit d202797f480c0e5918e7642d6716cdc62b3ab5c9 upstream.

Doing iput() after path_put() is wrong.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/misc/cxl/api.c b/drivers/misc/cxl/api.c
index a0c44d16bf30c58559a6ed0489cb762c13593e32..c75daba57fd77ffd6bce5a78f88c7ab9c16498b2 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/misc/cxl/api.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/api.c
@@ -102,15 +102,15 @@ static struct file *cxl_getfile(const char *name,
        d_instantiate(path.dentry, inode);
 
        file = alloc_file(&path, OPEN_FMODE(flags), fops);
-       if (IS_ERR(file))
-               goto err_dput;
+       if (IS_ERR(file)) {
+               path_put(&path);
+               goto err_fs;
+       }
        file->f_flags = flags & (O_ACCMODE | O_NONBLOCK);
        file->private_data = priv;
 
        return file;
 
-err_dput:
-       path_put(&path);
 err_inode:
        iput(inode);
 err_fs: