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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 208c6aa4a989..a780ea515c47 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1095,8 +1095,10 @@ static struct dentry *d_inode_lookup(struct dentry *parent, struct dentry *dentr struct dentry *old; /* Don't create child dentry for a dead directory. */ - if (unlikely(IS_DEADDIR(inode))) + if (unlikely(IS_DEADDIR(inode))) { + dput(dentry); return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); + } old = inode->i_op->lookup(inode, dentry, nd); if (unlikely(old)) { |