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From: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@ownmail.net>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
	Olga Kornievskaia <okorniev@redhat.com>,
	Dai Ngo <dai.ngo@oracle.com>, Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>
Cc: <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] NFSD: Fix delegation reference leak in nfsd4_revoke_states
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:18:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260324151812.85482-1-cel@kernel.org> (raw)

From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>

When revoking delegation state, nfsd4_revoke_states() takes an extra
reference on the stid before calling unhash_delegation_locked(). If
unhash_delegation_locked() returns false (the delegation was already
unhashed by a concurrent path), dp is set to NULL and
revoke_delegation() is skipped, but the extra reference is never
released. Each occurrence permanently pins the stid in memory. The
leaked reference also prevents nfs4_put_stid() from decrementing
cl_admin_revoked, leaving the counter permanently inflated.

Drop the extra reference in the failure path.

Fixes: 8dd91e8d31fe ("nfsd: fix race between laundromat and free_stateid")
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
---
 fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
index 6b9c399b89df..0fefae6b0a48 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
@@ -1389,7 +1389,8 @@ static void destroy_delegation(struct nfs4_delegation *dp)
  * stateid or it's called from a laundromat thread (nfsd4_landromat()) that
  * determined that this specific state has expired and needs to be revoked
  * (both mark state with the appropriate stid sc_status mode). It is also
- * assumed that a reference was taken on the @dp state.
+ * assumed that a reference was taken on the @dp state. This function
+ * consumes that reference.
  *
  * If this function finds that the @dp state is SC_STATUS_FREED it means
  * that a FREE_STATEID operation for this stateid has been processed and
@@ -1836,6 +1837,10 @@ void nfsd4_revoke_states(struct nfsd_net *nn, struct super_block *sb)
 					mutex_unlock(&stp->st_mutex);
 					break;
 				case SC_TYPE_DELEG:
+					/* Extra reference guards against concurrent
+					 * FREE_STATEID; revoke_delegation() consumes
+					 * it, otherwise release it directly.
+					 */
 					refcount_inc(&stid->sc_count);
 					dp = delegstateid(stid);
 					spin_lock(&state_lock);
@@ -1845,6 +1850,8 @@ void nfsd4_revoke_states(struct nfsd_net *nn, struct super_block *sb)
 					spin_unlock(&state_lock);
 					if (dp)
 						revoke_delegation(dp);
+					else
+						nfs4_put_stid(stid);
 					break;
 				case SC_TYPE_LAYOUT:
 					ls = layoutstateid(stid);
-- 
2.53.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-03-24 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-24 15:18 Chuck Lever [this message]
2026-03-24 16:54 ` [PATCH] NFSD: Fix delegation reference leak in nfsd4_revoke_states Jeff Layton

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