Patch "NFSv4.1: nfs4_fl_prepare_ds must be careful about reporting success." has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    NFSv4.1: nfs4_fl_prepare_ds must be careful about reporting success.

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     nfsv4.1-nfs4_fl_prepare_ds-must-be-careful-about-reporting-success.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From cfd278c280f997cf2fe4662e0acab0fe465f637b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 11:19:31 +1100
Subject: NFSv4.1: nfs4_fl_prepare_ds must be careful about reporting success.

From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>

commit cfd278c280f997cf2fe4662e0acab0fe465f637b upstream.

Various places assume that if nfs4_fl_prepare_ds() turns a non-NULL 'ds',
then ds->ds_clp will also be non-NULL.

This is not necessasrily true in the case when the process received a fatal signal
while nfs4_pnfs_ds_connect is waiting in nfs4_wait_ds_connect().
In that case ->ds_clp may not be set, and the devid may not recently have been marked
unavailable.

So add a test for ds_clp == NULL and return NULL in that case.

Fixes: c23266d532b4 ("NFS4.1 Fix data server connection race")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Acked-by: Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@umich.edu>
Acked-by: Adamson, Andy <William.Adamson@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/nfs/filelayout/filelayoutdev.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/nfs/filelayout/filelayoutdev.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/filelayout/filelayoutdev.c
@@ -283,7 +283,8 @@ nfs4_fl_prepare_ds(struct pnfs_layout_se
 			     s->nfs_client->cl_rpcclient->cl_auth->au_flavor);
 
 out_test_devid:
-	if (filelayout_test_devid_unavailable(devid))
+	if (ret->ds_clp == NULL ||
+	    filelayout_test_devid_unavailable(devid))
 		ret = NULL;
 out:
 	return ret;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from neilb@suse.com are

queue-4.4/nfsv4.1-nfs4_fl_prepare_ds-must-be-careful-about-reporting-success.patch