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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/file_table.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/file_table.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c index 5c7d10ead4ad..b8a0bb63cbd7 100644 --- a/fs/file_table.c +++ b/fs/file_table.c @@ -230,6 +230,15 @@ static void __fput(struct file *file) might_sleep(); fsnotify_close(file); + + /* + * fsnotify_create_event may have taken one or more references on this + * file. If it did so it left one reference for us to drop to make sure + * its calls to fput could not prematurely destroy the file. + */ + if (atomic_long_read(&file->f_count)) + return fput(file); + /* * The function eventpoll_release() should be the first called * in the file cleanup chain. |