[PATCH 6.19 03/49] smb: client: split cached_fid bitfields to avoid shared-byte RMW races

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-13T13:50:28Z

From: Henrique Carvalho <henrique.carvalho@suse.com>

commit ec306600d5ba7148c9dbf8f5a8f1f5c1a044a241 upstream.

is_open, has_lease and on_list are stored in the same bitfield byte in
struct cached_fid but are updated in different code paths that may run
concurrently. Bitfield assignments generate byte read–modify–write
operations (e.g. `orb $mask, addr` on x86_64), so updating one flag can
restore stale values of the others.

A possible interleaving is:
CPU1: load old byte (has_lease=1, on_list=1)
CPU2: clear both flags (store 0)
CPU1: RMW store (old | IS_OPEN) -> reintroduces cleared bits

To avoid this class of races, convert these flags to separate bool
fields.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: ebe98f1447bbc ("cifs: enable caching of directories for which a lease is held")
Signed-off-by: Henrique Carvalho <henrique.carvalho@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
fs/smb/client/cached_dir.h | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/smb/client/cached_dir.h
+++ b/fs/smb/client/cached_dir.h
@@ -36,10 +36,10 @@ struct cached_fid {
struct list_head entry;
struct cached_fids *cfids;
const char *path;
- bool has_lease:1;
- bool is_open:1;
- bool on_list:1;
- bool file_all_info_is_valid:1;
+ bool has_lease;
+ bool is_open;
+ bool on_list;
+ bool file_all_info_is_valid;
unsigned long time; /* jiffies of when lease was taken */
unsigned long last_access_time; /* jiffies of when last accessed */
struct kref refcount;