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From: Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>
To: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>, CIFS <linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][SMB3 client] Server interface count incorrectly calculated
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 17:03:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bc73fcd9-3a30-75f1-5745-94f0e2509cf4@talpey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH2r5mvf3zjMb3=ceL9wknZhMwp6CrOQEyzZ7HaXDNidYpLCBQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/15/2022 6:10 PM, Steve French wrote:
> smb3: interface count displayed incorrectly
> 
> The "Server interfaces" count in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData increases
> as the interfaces are requeried, rather than being reset to the new
> value.  This could cause a problem if the server disabled
> multichannel as the iface_count is checked in try_adding_channels
> to see if multichannel still supported.
> 
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> 
> See attached
> 

This zeroes the ses->iface_count under the lock, but the whole
routine is dropping and re-taking the same lock many times,
and finally sets the iface_count without holding the lock at
all. Isn't this whole sequence broken?

Tom.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-17 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-15 22:10 [PATCH][SMB3 client] Server interface count incorrectly calculated Steve French
2022-10-17 21:03 ` Tom Talpey [this message]
     [not found]   ` <CAH2r5muH+n6TYS3_O9pbwREWJ_GYuva_PvOLd88pxG+t9kVeCA@mail.gmail.com>
2022-10-17 21:28     ` Tom Talpey
     [not found]       ` <CAH2r5mvwy+foxWEznbD4R28=kv4-zdAqGwc7UTgH0WeCAceVEw@mail.gmail.com>
2022-10-20  5:47         ` Shyam Prasad N

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