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| author | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2010-08-11 09:36:51 +0200 |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2010-08-11 09:36:51 +0200 |
| commit | 6396fc3b3ff3f6b942992b653a62df11dcef9bea (patch) | |
| tree | db3c7cbe833b43c653adc99f70941431c5ff7c4e /fs/file_table.c | |
| parent | fix a typo on comments in mm/percpu.c (diff) | |
| parent | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Conflicts:
fs/exofs/inode.c
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/file_table.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/file_table.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c index 5c7d10ead4ad..b8a0bb63cbd7 100644 --- a/fs/file_table.c +++ b/fs/file_table.c @@ -230,6 +230,15 @@ static void __fput(struct file *file) might_sleep(); fsnotify_close(file); + + /* + * fsnotify_create_event may have taken one or more references on this + * file. If it did so it left one reference for us to drop to make sure + * its calls to fput could not prematurely destroy the file. + */ + if (atomic_long_read(&file->f_count)) + return fput(file); + /* * The function eventpoll_release() should be the first called * in the file cleanup chain. |