Re: d_instantiate_unique / NFS inode leakage?

[Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>]

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 03:00 +0200, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
>    Searching for inode leakage in NFS code (seen in 2.6.14 and 2.6.15 at least,
>    have not tried earlier versions), I see suspicious place in
>    d_instantiate_unique (the only user happens to be NFS).
>    There if we have found aliased dentry that we return, inode reference is
>    not dropped and inode is not attached anywhere, so it seems the reference
>    to inode is leaked in that case.
>    This simple patch below fixes the problem. Unfortunatelly the leakage seems
>    to be non-100% in my testing, so I will continue the testing to see
>    if I still see inodes to leak or not (no leak seen so far with the patch).
> 
> --- fs/dcache.c.orig	2006-01-05 02:28:57.000000000 +0200
> +++ fs/dcache.c	2006-01-05 02:32:08.000000000 +0200
> @@ -838,6 +838,7 @@ struct dentry *d_instantiate_unique(stru
>  		dget_locked(alias);
>  		spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
>  		BUG_ON(!d_unhashed(alias));
> +		iput(inode);
>  		return alias;
>  	}
>  	list_add(&entry->d_alias, &inode->i_dentry);

Yep, that looks like it ought to be the correct behaviour. Could you
please also add a note to this effect in the DocBook header for
d_instantiate_unique?

Cheers,
  Trond