On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 8:23 PM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 5:49 PM Arthur Marsh > <arthur.marsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > This still happens with 5.5.0-rc1: > > Does it happen 100% of the time? I can reproduce it (although it was a little more difficult since WiFi doesn't work on RC1 on some of my hardware - due to the 802.11 driver regression oops. I was able to reproduce it to Samba localhost). > Your bisection result looks pretty nonsensical - not that it's > impossible (anything is possible), but it really doesn't look very > likely. Which makes me think maybe it's slightly timing-sensitive or > something? The bisection result is implausible. I just did some experiments and it looks far more likely is that it is related to commit 72e73c78c446e ("cifs: close the shared root handle on tree disconnect") so added Ronnie to the cc. That patch added a call (at unmount time) to close_shroot. The idea of that patch made sense - although tree disconnect (and then logoff of the session) will indirectly free any open handles on the server for that session, it is a little cleaner to close the cached root SMB3 file handle explicitly. void close_shroot(struct cached_fid *cfid) { mutex_lock(&cfid->fid_mutex); kref_put(&cfid->refcount, smb2_close_cached_fid); mutex_unlock(&cfid->fid_mutex); } Taking out the one line change in the patch from last week that calls close_shroot from umount (SMB2_tdis, ie tree_disconnect) I don't see the problem so far more likely that it is related to that commit. The problem seems to be related to servers which don't support directory leases. Will spin up a patch to fix this if Ronnie hasn't already fixed it