In any case, d_splice_alias() does not drop reference of original dentry. Signed-off-by: "Yan, Zheng" <zyan@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
@@ -1135,6 +1135,7 @@ static struct dentry *splice_dentry(struct dentry *dn, struct inode *in)
if (IS_ERR(realdn)) {
pr_err("splice_dentry error %ld %p inode %p ino %llx.%llx\n",
PTR_ERR(realdn), dn, in, ceph_vinop(in));
+ dput(dn);
dn = realdn; /* note realdn contains the error */
goto out;
} else if (realdn) {