From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
To: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>, NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>,
Olga Kornievskaia <okorniev@redhat.com>,
Dai Ngo <Dai.Ngo@oracle.com>, Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>,
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
Scott Mayhew <smayhew@redhat.com>,
Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>,
Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>,
linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 02/10] nfsd: drain callbacks and clear cl_cb_session
Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 17:55:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260528-nfsd-fixes-v1-2-e78708eff77d@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260528-nfsd-fixes-v1-0-e78708eff77d@kernel.org>
From: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
After a DESTROY_SESSION the per-session teardown path can free a
session while rpciod still holds an inflight callback rpc_task that
dereferences clp->cl_cb_session. nfsd4_probe_callback_sync() flushes
cl_callback_wq, but once nfsd4_run_cb_work() has called
rpc_call_async() the rpc_task lives on rpciod; flushing the workqueue
does not wait for it. After the flush returns,
nfsd4_destroy_session() proceeds through nfsd4_put_session_locked()
and free_session() kfree()s the slab while rpciod's
nfsd4_cb_sequence_done(), grab_slot(), and nfsd41_cb_release_slot()
are still dereferencing cb->cb_clp->cl_cb_session.
destroy path rpciod
------------ ------
unhash_session(ses)
nfsd4_probe_callback_sync(clp)
flush_workqueue(cl_callback_wq)
/* returns; rpc_task still live */
nfsd4_put_session_locked(ses)
free_session(ses) -> kfree(ses)
nfsd4_cb_sequence_done()
reads cb_clp->cl_cb_session
/* freed slab */
A second window exists in nfsd4_process_cb_update(). When
__nfsd4_find_backchannel() returns NULL because unhash_session() has
already removed the destroyed session from cl_sessions,
setup_callback_client() takes the v4.1 early return
if (!conn->cb_xprt || !ses)
return -EINVAL;
so clp->cl_cb_session = ses never fires and the field retains a
pointer to the about-to-be-freed session. Symmetrically, if a later
probe finds a different session's backchannel conn and that
setup_callback_client() call fails, the error tail must still scrub
any previously published cl_cb_session.
Fix by mirroring the two-stage drain that nfsd4_shutdown_callback()
already performs: call nfsd41_cb_inflight_wait_complete() in
nfsd4_probe_callback_sync() after flush_workqueue() so rpciod-side
nfsd41_cb_inflight_end() decrements are observed before the caller
releases the final session reference. The two direct callers,
nfsd4_destroy_session() and nfsd4_init_conn() (itself invoked from
nfsd4_create_session() and nfsd4_bind_conn_to_session()), run in
sleepable process context and tolerate the wait_var_event() sleep:
nfsd4_destroy_session() (fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c):
unhash_session(ses);
spin_unlock(&nn->client_lock); /* spinlock dropped */
nfsd4_probe_callback_sync(ses->se_client);
nfsd4_init_conn() (fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c):
acquires no locks in its body; calls nfsd4_hash_conn(),
nfsd4_register_conn(), then nfsd4_probe_callback_sync() --
entirely in sleepable process context.
Also clear clp->cl_cb_session unconditionally on the
nfsd4_process_cb_update() error return so every
setup_callback_client() failure -- whether c is NULL or points at a
different session whose probe failed -- leaves the field NULL rather
than pointing at a session that may subsequently be freed.
Fixes: dcbeaa68dbbd ("nfsd4: allow backchannel recovery")
Assisted-by: kres:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
---
fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c
index 1964a213f80e..1cf6b6100357 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c
@@ -1205,9 +1205,8 @@ static int setup_callback_client(struct nfs4_client *clp, struct nfs4_cb_conn *c
} else {
if (!conn->cb_xprt || !ses)
return -EINVAL;
- clp->cl_cb_session = ses;
args.bc_xprt = conn->cb_xprt;
- args.prognumber = clp->cl_cb_session->se_cb_prog;
+ args.prognumber = ses->se_cb_prog;
args.protocol = conn->cb_xprt->xpt_class->xcl_ident |
XPRT_TRANSPORT_BC;
args.authflavor = ses->se_cb_sec.flavor;
@@ -1225,8 +1224,10 @@ static int setup_callback_client(struct nfs4_client *clp, struct nfs4_cb_conn *c
return -ENOMEM;
}
- if (clp->cl_minorversion != 0)
+ if (clp->cl_minorversion != 0) {
clp->cl_cb_conn.cb_xprt = conn->cb_xprt;
+ clp->cl_cb_session = ses;
+ }
clp->cl_cb_client = client;
clp->cl_cb_cred = cred;
rcu_read_lock();
@@ -1299,6 +1300,7 @@ void nfsd4_probe_callback_sync(struct nfs4_client *clp)
{
nfsd4_probe_callback(clp);
flush_workqueue(clp->cl_callback_wq);
+ nfsd41_cb_inflight_wait_complete(clp);
}
void nfsd4_change_callback(struct nfs4_client *clp, struct nfs4_cb_conn *conn)
@@ -1679,7 +1681,17 @@ static struct nfsd4_conn * __nfsd4_find_backchannel(struct nfs4_client *clp)
* Note there isn't a lot of locking in this code; instead we depend on
* the fact that it is run from clp->cl_callback_wq, which won't run two
* work items at once. So, for example, clp->cl_callback_wq handles all
- * access of cl_cb_client and all calls to rpc_create or rpc_shutdown_client.
+ * access of cl_cb_client and cl_cb_session, and all calls to rpc_create
+ * or rpc_shutdown_client.
+ *
+ * rpciod-side readers of cl_cb_session (encode_cb_sequence4args(),
+ * nfsd4_cb_sequence_done(), the cb-slot helpers, and the cb_sequence
+ * tracepoints) run outside cl_callback_wq. The
+ * nfsd41_cb_inflight_wait_complete() drain in nfsd4_probe_callback_sync()
+ * waits until cl_cb_inflight reaches zero before the caller proceeds with
+ * session teardown; any rpc_task that reads cl_cb_session must hold an
+ * inflight pin (via nfsd41_cb_inflight_begin) for this fence to be
+ * effective.
*/
static void nfsd4_process_cb_update(struct nfsd4_callback *cb)
{
@@ -1731,6 +1743,7 @@ static void nfsd4_process_cb_update(struct nfsd4_callback *cb)
nfsd4_mark_cb_down(clp);
if (c)
svc_xprt_put(c->cn_xprt);
+ clp->cl_cb_session = NULL;
return;
}
}
--
2.54.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-28 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-28 21:55 [PATCH 00/10] nfsd: a pile of fixes for random bugs Jeff Layton
2026-05-28 21:55 ` [PATCH 01/10] nfsd: fix BUG_ON in nfsd4_alloc_layout_stateid on racing delegation revoke Jeff Layton
2026-05-28 23:40 ` NeilBrown
2026-05-29 14:44 ` Jeff Layton
2026-05-28 21:55 ` Jeff Layton [this message]
2026-05-29 15:13 ` [PATCH 02/10] nfsd: drain callbacks and clear cl_cb_session Chuck Lever
2026-05-29 17:31 ` Jeff Layton
2026-05-28 21:55 ` [PATCH 03/10] nfsd: serialize nfsd4_end_grace() with atomic test-and-set Jeff Layton
2026-05-29 15:38 ` Chuck Lever
2026-05-29 15:57 ` Jeff Layton
2026-05-29 16:05 ` Chuck Lever
2026-05-29 17:02 ` Jeff Layton
2026-05-28 21:55 ` [PATCH 04/10] nfsd: dedup nfs4_client_to_reclaim inserts Jeff Layton
2026-05-29 16:22 ` Chuck Lever
2026-05-28 21:55 ` [PATCH 05/10] nfsd: gate nfs3 setacl by argp->mask Jeff Layton
2026-05-28 21:55 ` [PATCH 06/10] NFSD: Enable return of an updated stable_how to NFS clients Jeff Layton
2026-05-29 10:56 ` Jeff Layton
2026-05-30 7:58 ` NFSv4.1 COMMIT of all changed areas only on flush? " Cedric Blancher
2026-05-30 10:24 ` Jeff Layton
2026-05-28 21:55 ` [PATCH 07/10] NFSD: check truncate permission under inode lock Jeff Layton
2026-05-28 21:55 ` [PATCH 08/10] nfsd: fix partial-write detection in nfsd_direct_write Jeff Layton
2026-05-29 16:57 ` Chuck Lever
2026-05-29 17:01 ` Jeff Layton
2026-05-29 17:03 ` Chuck Lever
2026-05-29 17:06 ` Jeff Layton
2026-05-29 17:09 ` Chuck Lever
2026-05-28 21:55 ` [PATCH 09/10] nfsd: cap decoded POSIX ACL count to bound sort cost Jeff Layton
2026-05-28 22:11 ` Rick Macklem
2026-05-28 23:11 ` Chuck Lever
2026-05-29 0:07 ` Chuck Lever
2026-05-29 10:48 ` Jeff Layton
2026-05-29 13:20 ` Chuck Lever
2026-05-29 7:34 ` Cedric Blancher
2026-05-29 10:50 ` Jeff Layton
2026-05-29 18:34 ` Chuck Lever
2026-05-29 18:41 ` Jeff Layton
2026-05-29 18:48 ` Chuck Lever
2026-05-29 23:04 ` Rick Macklem
2026-05-28 21:55 ` [PATCH 10/10] nfsd: validate symlink target length in NFSv4 CREATE Jeff Layton
2026-05-29 18:55 ` Chuck Lever
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