[DLM] Fix kref_put oops

This patch fixes the recounting on the lockspace kobject. Previously the lockspace was freed while userspace could have had a
reference to one of its sysfs files, causing an oops in kref_put.

Now the lockspace kfree is moved into the kobject release() function

Signed-Off-By: Patrick Caulfield <pcaulfie@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

diff --git a/fs/dlm/lockspace.c b/fs/dlm/lockspace.c
index 109333c8ecb9136cd09cd3b87ae4ec3b2d68f015..499ee11563653d77842689a3f8b704c7973bd297 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/dlm/lockspace.c
+++ b/fs/dlm/lockspace.c
@@ -143,6 +143,12 @@ static ssize_t dlm_attr_store(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *attr,
        return a->store ? a->store(ls, buf, len) : len;
 }
 
+static void lockspace_kobj_release(struct kobject *k)
+{
+       struct dlm_ls *ls  = container_of(k, struct dlm_ls, ls_kobj);
+       kfree(ls);
+}
+
 static struct sysfs_ops dlm_attr_ops = {
        .show  = dlm_attr_show,
        .store = dlm_attr_store,
@@ -151,6 +157,7 @@ static struct sysfs_ops dlm_attr_ops = {
 static struct kobj_type dlm_ktype = {
        .default_attrs = dlm_attrs,
        .sysfs_ops     = &dlm_attr_ops,
+       .release       = lockspace_kobj_release,
 };
 
 static struct kset dlm_kset = {
@@ -678,7 +685,7 @@ static int release_lockspace(struct dlm_ls *ls, int force)
        dlm_clear_members_gone(ls);
        kfree(ls->ls_node_array);
        kobject_unregister(&ls->ls_kobj);
-       kfree(ls);
+        /* The ls structure will be freed when the kobject is done with */
 
        mutex_lock(&ls_lock);
        ls_count--;