From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:44:04 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: NFS: Fix buglet in fs/nfs/write.c
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.17-rc1~667^2~102
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1dd594b21b2d98e56f2b1fe92bb222276b28de41;p=karo-tx-linux.git

NFS: Fix buglet in fs/nfs/write.c

I've been reading through fs/nfs/write.c trying to track down a bug
that seems to be related to pages loosing a refcount and getting
freed too early (you interested in detail??) and I spotted a little
bug which the following patch should fix.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
---

diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c
index 9449b6835509..d6ad449041eb 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -653,8 +653,11 @@ static struct nfs_page * nfs_update_request(struct nfs_open_context* ctx,
 				spin_unlock(&nfsi->req_lock);
 				error = nfs_wait_on_request(req);
 				nfs_release_request(req);
-				if (error < 0)
+				if (error < 0) {
+					if (new)
+						nfs_release_request(new);
 					return ERR_PTR(error);
+				}
 				continue;
 			}
 			spin_unlock(&nfsi->req_lock);