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From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
To: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
	Trond Myklebust <trondmy@kernel.org>,
	Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>,
	linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] nfsd: avoid ref leak in nfsd_open_local_fh()
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 22:37:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aHmzU6vqIg-y82oy@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250718012831.2187613-2-neil@brown.name>

On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 11:26:14AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> If two calls to nfsd_open_local_fh() race and both successfully call
> nfsd_file_acquire_local(), they will both get an extra reference to the
> net to accompany the file reference stored in *pnf.
> 
> One of them will fail to store (using xchg()) the file reference in
> *pnf and will drop that reference but WONT drop the accompanying
> reference to the net.  This leak means that when the nfs server is shut
> down it will hang in nfsd_shutdown_net() waiting for
> &nn->nfsd_net_free_done.
> 
> This patch adds the missing nfsd_net_put().
> 
> Reported-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
> Fixes: e6f7e1487ab5 ("nfs_localio: simplify interface to nfsd for getting nfsd_file")
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>

Tested-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>

Looks really solid now, thanks!

Mike

  reply	other threads:[~2025-07-18  2:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-07-18  1:26 [PATCH 0/2 RFT] nfsd: fix another problem with recent localio changes NeilBrown
2025-07-18  1:26 ` [PATCH 1/2] nfsd: avoid ref leak in nfsd_open_local_fh() NeilBrown
2025-07-18  2:37   ` Mike Snitzer [this message]
2025-07-18  3:00     ` NeilBrown
2025-07-18  1:26 ` [PATCH 2/2] nfsd: discard nfsd_file_get_local() NeilBrown
2025-07-18  2:37   ` Mike Snitzer
2025-07-18 11:52 ` [PATCH 0/2 RFT] nfsd: fix another problem with recent localio changes Jeff Layton
2025-07-18 14:25 ` Chuck Lever
2025-07-18 14:27   ` Mike Snitzer
2025-07-18 14:36     ` Mike Snitzer

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