Nothing ensures that session will still be valid by the time we dereference the pointer. Take and put a reference. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ceph/caps.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ceph/caps.c b/fs/ceph/caps.c index 3eab905ba74b..061e52912991 100644 --- a/fs/ceph/caps.c +++ b/fs/ceph/caps.c @@ -2051,12 +2051,14 @@ void ceph_check_caps(struct ceph_inode_info *ci, int flags, if (mutex_trylock(&session->s_mutex) == 0) { dout("inverting session/ino locks on %p\n", session); + session = ceph_get_mds_session(session); spin_unlock(&ci->i_ceph_lock); if (took_snap_rwsem) { up_read(&mdsc->snap_rwsem); took_snap_rwsem = 0; } mutex_lock(&session->s_mutex); + ceph_put_mds_session(session); goto retry; } } -- 2.25.1