[PATCH] cachefiles: Fix excess dput() after end_removing()
From: David Howells
Date: Tue Mar 24 2026 - 18:39:19 EST
When cachefiles_cull() calls cachefiles_bury_object(), the latter eats the
former's ref on the victim dentry that it obtained from
cachefiles_lookup_for_cull(). However, commit 7bb1eb45e43c left the dput
of the victim in place, resulting in occasional:
WARNING: fs/dcache.c:829 at dput.part.0+0xf5/0x110, CPU#7: cachefilesd/11831
cachefiles_cull+0x8c/0xe0 [cachefiles]
cachefiles_daemon_cull+0xcd/0x120 [cachefiles]
cachefiles_daemon_write+0x14e/0x1d0 [cachefiles]
vfs_write+0xc3/0x480
...
reports.
Fix this by removing the dput().
Fixes: 7bb1eb45e43c ("VFS: introduce start_removing_dentry()")
Reported-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: NeilBrown <neil@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: netfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
cc: linux-afs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
fs/cachefiles/namei.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/namei.c b/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
index bdac2f33edf3..e2023e78e4df 100644
--- a/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
+++ b/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
@@ -795,7 +795,6 @@ int cachefiles_cull(struct cachefiles_cache *cache, struct dentry *dir,
ret = cachefiles_bury_object(cache, NULL, dir, victim,
FSCACHE_OBJECT_WAS_CULLED);
- dput(victim);
if (ret < 0)
goto error;