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Commit 3cab989a authored by Al Viro's avatar Al Viro
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RCU pathwalk breakage when running into a symlink overmounting something



Calling unlazy_walk() in walk_component() and do_last() when we find
a symlink that needs to be followed doesn't acquire a reference to vfsmount.
That's fine when the symlink is on the same vfsmount as the parent directory
(which is almost always the case), but it's not always true - one _can_
manage to bind a symlink on top of something.  And in such cases we end up
with excessive mntput().

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # since 2.6.39
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
parent ac74d8d6
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