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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

Pull vfs dentry reference count fix from Al Viro.

This fixes a possible inode_permission NULL pointer dereference (and
other problems) that were due to the root dentry count being decremented
too much. In commit 48a066e72d97 ("RCU'd vfsmounts") the placement of
clearing the LOOKUP_RCU bit changed, and we then returned failure of
incrementing the lockref on the parent dentry with LOOKUP_RCU cleared.

But that meant we needed to go through the same cleanup routines that
the later failures did wrt LOOKUP_ROOT and nd->root.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
fix bogus path_put() of nd->root after some unlazy_walk() failures

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fs/namei.c
··· 513 513 514 514 if (!lockref_get_not_dead(&parent->d_lockref)) { 515 515 nd->path.dentry = NULL; 516 - rcu_read_unlock(); 517 - return -ECHILD; 516 + goto out; 518 517 } 519 518 520 519 /*