Author: Neil Brown NFS: Fix buglet in fs/nfs/write.c I've been reading through fs/nfs/write.c trying to track down a bug that seems to be related to pages loosing a refcount and getting freed too early (you interested in detail??) and I spotted a little bug which the following patch should fix. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust --- fs/nfs/write.c | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c index 9449b68..d6ad449 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/write.c +++ b/fs/nfs/write.c @@ -653,8 +653,11 @@ static struct nfs_page * nfs_update_requ spin_unlock(&nfsi->req_lock); error = nfs_wait_on_request(req); nfs_release_request(req); - if (error < 0) + if (error < 0) { + if (new) + nfs_release_request(new); return ERR_PTR(error); + } continue; } spin_unlock(&nfsi->req_lock);