- Fix an error-path file refcount leak - Remove unnecessary get_file()/fput() pair. - Clean up error handling a little --- 25-akpm/drivers/block/loop.c | 9 ++------- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/block/loop.c~loop-fd-leak-fix drivers/block/loop.c --- 25/drivers/block/loop.c~loop-fd-leak-fix Wed Jan 14 14:42:55 2004 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/block/loop.c Wed Jan 14 14:42:55 2004 @@ -676,7 +676,6 @@ static int loop_set_fd(struct loop_devic if (!file) goto out; - error = -EINVAL; inode = file->f_dentry->d_inode; if (!(file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE)) @@ -686,7 +685,7 @@ static int loop_set_fd(struct loop_devic lo_device = inode->i_bdev; if (lo_device == bdev) { error = -EBUSY; - goto out; + goto out_putf; } lo_blocksize = block_size(lo_device); if (bdev_read_only(lo_device)) @@ -697,6 +696,7 @@ static int loop_set_fd(struct loop_devic * If we can't read - sorry. If we only can't write - well, * it's going to be read-only. */ + error = -EINVAL; if (!inode->i_fop->sendfile) goto out_putf; @@ -709,8 +709,6 @@ static int loop_set_fd(struct loop_devic } else goto out_putf; - get_file(file); - if (!(lo_file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE)) lo_flags |= LO_FLAGS_READ_ONLY; @@ -725,7 +723,6 @@ static int loop_set_fd(struct loop_devic lo->lo_sizelimit = 0; if (figure_loop_size(lo)) { error = -EFBIG; - fput(file); goto out_putf; } lo->old_gfp_mask = mapping_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping); @@ -760,8 +757,6 @@ static int loop_set_fd(struct loop_devic kernel_thread(loop_thread, lo, CLONE_KERNEL); down(&lo->lo_sem); - - fput(file); return 0; out_putf: _