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Al Viro committed 51486b900ee
fix inode leaks on d_splice_alias() failure exits d_splice_alias() callers expect it to either stash the inode reference into a new alias, or drop the inode reference. That makes it possible to just return d_splice_alias() result from ->lookup() instance, without any extra housekeeping required. Unfortunately, that should include the failure exits. If d_splice_alias() returns an error, it leaves the dentry it has been given negative and thus it *must* drop the inode reference. Easily fixed, but it goes way back and will need backporting. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>