Coverity had rightly indicated a possible deadlock due to chan_lock being done inside match_session. All callers of match_* functions should pick up the necessary locks and call them. Signed-off-by: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/connect.c | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c index 4ea1e51c3fa5..fb9d9994df09 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c @@ -1735,7 +1735,7 @@ cifs_get_tcp_session(struct smb3_fs_context *ctx, return ERR_PTR(rc); } -/* this function must be called with ses_lock held */ +/* this function must be called with ses_lock and chan_lock held */ static int match_session(struct cifs_ses *ses, struct smb3_fs_context *ctx) { if (ctx->sectype != Unspecified && @@ -1746,12 +1746,8 @@ static int match_session(struct cifs_ses *ses, struct smb3_fs_context *ctx) * If an existing session is limited to less channels than * requested, it should not be reused */ - spin_lock(&ses->chan_lock); - if (ses->chan_max < ctx->max_channels) { - spin_unlock(&ses->chan_lock); + if (ses->chan_max < ctx->max_channels) return 0; - } - spin_unlock(&ses->chan_lock); switch (ses->sectype) { case Kerberos: @@ -1879,10 +1875,13 @@ cifs_find_smb_ses(struct TCP_Server_Info *server, struct smb3_fs_context *ctx) spin_unlock(&ses->ses_lock); continue; } + spin_lock(&ses->chan_lock); if (!match_session(ses, ctx)) { + spin_unlock(&ses->chan_lock); spin_unlock(&ses->ses_lock); continue; } + spin_unlock(&ses->chan_lock); spin_unlock(&ses->ses_lock); ++ses->ses_count; @@ -2706,6 +2705,7 @@ cifs_match_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data) spin_lock(&tcp_srv->srv_lock); spin_lock(&ses->ses_lock); + spin_lock(&ses->chan_lock); spin_lock(&tcon->tc_lock); if (!match_server(tcp_srv, ctx, dfs_super_cmp) || !match_session(ses, ctx) || @@ -2718,6 +2718,7 @@ cifs_match_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data) rc = compare_mount_options(sb, mnt_data); out: spin_unlock(&tcon->tc_lock); + spin_unlock(&ses->chan_lock); spin_unlock(&ses->ses_lock); spin_unlock(&tcp_srv->srv_lock); -- 2.34.1