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Miklos Szeredi committed 9dd78d8c9a7
ext4: use dget_parent() in ext4_file_open() In f_op->open() lock on parent is not held, so there's no guarantee that parent dentry won't go away at any time. Even after this patch there's no guarantee that 'dir' will stay the parent of 'inode', but at least it won't be freed while being used. Fixes: ff978b09f973 ("ext4 crypto: move context consistency check to ext4_file_open()") Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.5