[PATCH v3 0/9] NFSD: Fix UAFs in client teardown and state revocation

[Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>]

An NFSv4 stateid, and a bare lock owner reachable through the client's
owner hash, hold only a raw pointer to the owning nfs4_client. That
client outlives its state only because __destroy_client() drains every
stateid and owner before free_client() runs. A walk that dereferences
the client, or the owner, through one of those raw pointers after
dropping the lock that kept it reachable races a concurrent teardown
that can free it first. The NULL-pointer dereference reported during
client teardown was one such race; auditing the pattern found more
across the revocation and laundromat-reaping paths.

Where the racing object is the client, the fix is uniform: pin it with
cl_rpc_users across the window in which nn->client_lock is dropped.
Skipping a client that is already expiring is part of the correctness
argument, not cleanup. force_expire_client() stops consulting
cl_rpc_users once its wait has passed, so a pin taken then would not
hold the client; the walk must instead leave that client's state for
its own teardown to drain. Testing the expiry and taking the pin under
nn->client_lock is what makes the choice atomic against the expiry.

Pinning the client from these paths introduces a lock-order edge that
did not exist before: nn->client_lock now nests outside the inner
region of nn->deleg_lock and outside nn->blocked_locks_lock, both leaf
acquisitions everywhere else. The nesting is one-directional, and
netns.h records the deleg_lock relationship; a reaping path added later
must take nn->client_lock first.

Two changes sit apart from the lifetime races. The revocation and
reaping fixes left four open-coded copies of the pin-drop idiom,
consolidated here into put_client_no_renew() helpers (patch 6). The
same audit turned up an unrelated svc_export leak:
free_ol_stateid_reaplist() reaps open and lock stateids through
->sc_free() directly, bypassing the reference drop nfs4_put_stid()
performs, so the export stays pinned and blocks unmount (patch 9).

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Changes in v2:
- Add matching UAF fixes in several other paths

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Changes in v3:
- Fix client UAF in laundromat blocked-lock reaping (Neil)
- Fix client UAF in laundromat close_lru reaping (sashiko)
- Fix svc_export leak when reaping open stateids (sashiko)
- Link to v2: https://patch.msgid.link/20260705-cel-v2-0-d88c3b68e8bc@kernel.org

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Chuck Lever (9):
      NFSD: Prevent lock owner use-after-free during client teardown
      NFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during delegation revoke
      NFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during admin state revocation
      NFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during export state revocation
      NFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during NFSv4.0 revoked-state cleanup
      NFSD: Consolidate the revocation-path client unpin
      NFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during blocked-lock reaping
      NFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during close_lru reaping
      NFSD: Release the export reference when reaping open stateids

 fs/nfsd/netns.h     |   6 ++-
 fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 145 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 2 files changed, 128 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
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base-commit: ee6ae4a6bf3565b880dfb420017337475dfbc9ea
change-id: 20260705-cel-61c1c70caa03

Best regards,
--  
Chuck Lever