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Commit a4813799 authored by Adam McCoy's avatar Adam McCoy Committed by Steve French
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cifs: fix leaked reference on requeued write



Failed async writes that are requeued may not clean up a refcount
on the file, which can result in a leaked open. This scenario arises
very reliably when using persistent handles and a reconnect occurs
while writing.

cifs_writev_requeue only releases the reference if the write fails
(rc != 0). The server->ops->async_writev operation will take its own
reference, so the initial reference can always be released.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAdam McCoy <adam@forsedomani.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
CC: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPavel Shilovsky <pshilov@microsoft.com>
parent 9bd21d4b
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