On Fri, 2023-11-17 at 13:18 +1100, NeilBrown wrote: > The protocol for creating a new state in nfsd is to allocated the state > leaving it largely uninitialised, add that state to the ->cl_stateids > idr so as to reserve a state id, then complete initialisation of the > state and only set ->sc_type to non-zero once the state is fully > initialised. > > If a state is found in the idr with ->sc_type == 0, it is ignored. > The ->cl_lock list is used to avoid races - it is held while checking > sc_type during lookup, and held when a non-zero value is stored in > ->sc_type. > > ... except... hash_delegation_locked() finalises the initialisation of a > delegation state, but does NOT hold ->cl_lock. > > So this patch takes ->cl_lock at the appropriate time w.r.t other locks, > and so ensures there are no races (which are extremely unlikely in any > case). > > Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> > --- > fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c > index 65fd5510323a..6368788a7d4e 100644 > --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c > +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c > @@ -1317,6 +1317,7 @@ hash_delegation_locked(struct nfs4_delegation *dp, struct nfs4_file *fp) > > lockdep_assert_held(&state_lock); > lockdep_assert_held(&fp->fi_lock); > + lockdep_assert_held(&clp->cl_lock); > > if (nfs4_delegation_exists(clp, fp)) > return -EAGAIN; > @@ -5609,12 +5610,14 @@ nfs4_set_delegation(struct nfsd4_open *open, struct nfs4_ol_stateid *stp, > goto out_unlock; > > spin_lock(&state_lock); > + spin_lock(&clp->cl_lock); > spin_lock(&fp->fi_lock); > if (fp->fi_had_conflict) > status = -EAGAIN; > else > status = hash_delegation_locked(dp, fp); > spin_unlock(&fp->fi_lock); > + spin_unlock(&clp->cl_lock); > spin_unlock(&state_lock); > > if (status) I know it's (supposedly) an unlikely race, but should we send this to stable? Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>