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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/kernfs/dir.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/kernfs/dir.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/kernfs/dir.c b/fs/kernfs/dir.c index 13cae0ccce74..e6d9772ddb4c 100644 --- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c @@ -961,7 +961,13 @@ struct kernfs_root *kernfs_create_root(struct kernfs_syscall_ops *scops, */ void kernfs_destroy_root(struct kernfs_root *root) { - kernfs_remove(root->kn); /* will also free @root */ + /* + * kernfs_remove holds kernfs_rwsem from the root so the root + * shouldn't be freed during the operation. + */ + kernfs_get(root->kn); + kernfs_remove(root->kn); + kernfs_put(root->kn); /* will also free @root */ } /** |