[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "9p: don't leave a half-initialized inode sitting around" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    9p: don't leave a half-initialized inode sitting around

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt16.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 10:34:29 -0400
Subject: 9p: don't leave a half-initialized inode sitting around

commit 0a73d0a204a4a04a1e110539c5a524ae51f91d6d upstream.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 fs/9p/vfs_inode.c      | 3 +--
 fs/9p/vfs_inode_dotl.c | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c b/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
index 7fa4f7a7653d..509459d71ed0 100644
--- a/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
+++ b/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
@@ -540,8 +540,7 @@ static struct inode *v9fs_qid_iget(struct super_block *sb,
 	unlock_new_inode(inode);
 	return inode;
 error:
-	unlock_new_inode(inode);
-	iput(inode);
+	iget_failed(inode);
 	return ERR_PTR(retval);

 }
diff --git a/fs/9p/vfs_inode_dotl.c b/fs/9p/vfs_inode_dotl.c
index 1fa85aae24df..d3fb85871921 100644
--- a/fs/9p/vfs_inode_dotl.c
+++ b/fs/9p/vfs_inode_dotl.c
@@ -149,8 +149,7 @@ static struct inode *v9fs_qid_iget_dotl(struct super_block *sb,
 	unlock_new_inode(inode);
 	return inode;
 error:
-	unlock_new_inode(inode);
-	iput(inode);
+	iget_failed(inode);
 	return ERR_PTR(retval);

 }