From: Andrew Morton Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 01:10:03 +0000 (+0000) Subject: drivers/mmc/card/block.c: fix refcount leak in mmc_block_open() X-Git-Tag: v2.6.26.6~68 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4fa9a2f9e5ad0171b890ecea3433276e66bc8353;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git drivers/mmc/card/block.c: fix refcount leak in mmc_block_open() commit 70bb08962ea9bd50797ae9f16b2493f5f7c65053 upstream mmc_block_open() increments md->usage although it returns with -EROFS when default mounting a MMC/SD card with write protect switch on. This reference counting bug prevents /dev/mmcblkX from being released on card removal, and situation worsen with reinsertion until the minor number range runs out. Reported-by: Acked-by: Pierre Ossman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/mmc/card/block.c b/drivers/mmc/card/block.c index f9ad960d7c1a6..55a104dd83470 100644 --- a/drivers/mmc/card/block.c +++ b/drivers/mmc/card/block.c @@ -103,8 +103,10 @@ static int mmc_blk_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) check_disk_change(inode->i_bdev); ret = 0; - if ((filp->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) && md->read_only) + if ((filp->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) && md->read_only) { + mmc_blk_put(md); ret = -EROFS; + } } return ret;