On Mon, 2025-09-01 at 15:14 +0000, Alex Markuze wrote: > ceph_get_reply_dir() may return a different, referenced inode when r_parent is stale and the parent directory lock is not held. > ceph_fill_trace() used that inode but failed to drop the reference when it differed from req->r_parent, leaking an inode reference. > > Keep the directory inode in a local and iput() it at function end if it does not match req->r_parent. > > Signed-off-by: Alex Markuze <amarkuze@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/ceph/inode.c | 10 +++++++++- > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/fs/ceph/inode.c b/fs/ceph/inode.c > index 470ee595ecf2..439c08ece283 100644 > --- a/fs/ceph/inode.c > +++ b/fs/ceph/inode.c > @@ -1585,6 +1585,7 @@ int ceph_fill_trace(struct super_block *sb, struct ceph_mds_request *req) > struct ceph_fs_client *fsc = ceph_sb_to_fs_client(sb); > struct ceph_client *cl = fsc->client; > int err = 0; > + struct inode *dir = NULL; Probably, we need to declare the dir pointer before err declaration. What do you think? > > doutc(cl, "%p is_dentry %d is_target %d\n", req, > rinfo->head->is_dentry, rinfo->head->is_target); > @@ -1601,7 +1602,11 @@ int ceph_fill_trace(struct super_block *sb, struct ceph_mds_request *req) > * r_parent may be stale, in cases when R_PARENT_LOCKED is not set, > * so we need to get the correct inode > */ > - struct inode *dir = ceph_get_reply_dir(sb, req->r_parent, rinfo); > + dir = ceph_get_reply_dir(sb, req->r_parent, rinfo); > + if (IS_ERR(dir)) { > + err = PTR_ERR(dir); > + goto done; > + } > if (dir) { > err = ceph_fill_inode(dir, NULL, &rinfo->diri, > rinfo->dirfrag, session, -1, > @@ -1869,6 +1874,9 @@ int ceph_fill_trace(struct super_block *sb, struct ceph_mds_request *req) > &dvino, ptvino); > } > done: > + /* Drop extra ref from ceph_get_reply_dir() if it returned a new inode */ > + if (!IS_ERR(dir) && dir && dir != req->r_parent) I think it makes sense to check the dir on NULL at first, then on error. Maybe, we need to name dir variable as parent_dir or simply parent? Thanks, Slava. > + iput(dir); > doutc(cl, "done err=%d\n", err); > return err; > }