The patch titled knfsd: fix race related problem when adding items to and svcrpc auth cache has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename is knfsd-fix-race-related-problem-when-adding-items-to-and-svcrpc-auth-cache.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: knfsd: fix race related problem when adding items to and svcrpc auth cache From: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> If we don't find the item we are lookng for, we allocate a new one, and then grab the lock again and search to see if it has been added while we did the alloc. If it had been added we need to 'cache_put' the newly created item that we are never going to use. But as it hasn't been initialised properly, putting it can cause an oops. So move the ->init call earlier to that it will always be fully initilised if we have to put it. Thanks to Philipp Matthias Hahn <pmhahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> for reporting the problem. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- net/sunrpc/cache.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN net/sunrpc/cache.c~knfsd-fix-race-related-problem-when-adding-items-to-and-svcrpc-auth-cache net/sunrpc/cache.c --- a/net/sunrpc/cache.c~knfsd-fix-race-related-problem-when-adding-items-to-and-svcrpc-auth-cache +++ a/net/sunrpc/cache.c @@ -71,7 +71,12 @@ struct cache_head *sunrpc_cache_lookup(s new = detail->alloc(); if (!new) return NULL; + /* must fully initialise 'new', else + * we might get lose if we need to + * cache_put it soon. + */ cache_init(new); + detail->init(new, key); write_lock(&detail->hash_lock); @@ -85,7 +90,6 @@ struct cache_head *sunrpc_cache_lookup(s return tmp; } } - detail->init(new, key); new->next = *head; *head = new; detail->entries++; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from neilb@xxxxxxx are vfs-destroy-the-dentries-contributed-by-a-superblock-on-unmounting.patch knfsd-knfsd-add-some-missing-newlines-in-printks.patch knfsd-knfsd-remove-an-unused-variable-from-e_show.patch knfsd-knfsd-remove-an-unused-variable-from-auth_unix_lookup.patch knfsd-add-a-callback-for-when-last-rpc-thread-finishes.patch knfsd-add-a-callback-for-when-last-rpc-thread-finishes-tidy.patch knfsd-be-more-selective-in-which-sockets-lockd-listens-on.patch knfsd-remove-nfsd_versbits-as-intermediate-storage-for-desired-versions.patch knfsd-separate-out-some-parts-of-nfsd_svc-which-start-nfs-servers.patch knfsd-separate-out-some-parts-of-nfsd_svc-which-start-nfs-servers-tweaks.patch knfsd-define-new-nfsdfs-file-portlist-contains-list-of-ports.patch knfsd-define-new-nfsdfs-file-portlist-contains-list-of-ports-tidy.patch knfsd-define-new-nfsdfs-file-portlist-contains-list-of-ports-fix.patch knfsd-allow-sockets-to-be-passed-to-nfsd-via-portlist.patch knfsd-use-seq_start_token-instead-of-hardcoded-magic-void1.patch knfsd-have-ext2-reject-file-handles-with-bad-inode-numbers-early.patch knfsd-have-ext2-reject-file-handles-with-bad-inode-numbers-early-tidy.patch knfsd-make-ext3-reject-filehandles-referring-to-invalid-inode-numbers.patch knfsd-make-ext3-reject-filehandles-referring-to-invalid-inode-numbers-tidy.patch knfsd-drop-serv-option-to-svc_recv-and-svc_process.patch knfsd-drop-serv-option-to-svc_recv-and-svc_process-nfs-callback-fix-nfs-callback-fix.patch knfsd-check-return-value-of-lockd_up-in-write_ports.patch knfsd-move-makesock-failed-warning-into-make_socks.patch knfsd-correctly-handle-error-condition-from-lockd_up.patch knfsd-move-tempsock-aging-to-a-timer.patch knfsd-move-tempsock-aging-to-a-timer-tidy.patch knfsd-convert-sk_inuse-to-atomic_t.patch knfsd-use-new-lock-for-svc_sock-deferred-list.patch knfsd-convert-sk_reserved-to-atomic_t.patch knfsd-test-and-set-sk_busy-atomically.patch knfsd-split-svc_serv-into-pools.patch knfsd-add-svc_get.patch knfsd-add-svc_set_num_threads.patch knfsd-use-svc_set_num_threads-to-manage-threads-in-knfsd.patch knfsd-make-rpc-threads-pools-numa-aware.patch knfsd-allow-admin-to-set-nthreads-per-node.patch revert-knfsd-make-rpc-threads-pools-numa-aware.patch md-the-scheduled-removal-of-the-start_array-ioctl-for-md.patch md-fix-a-comment-that-is-wrong-in-raid5h.patch md-factor-out-part-of-raid1d-into-a-separate-function.patch md-factor-out-part-of-raid10d-into-a-separate-function.patch md-replace-magic-numbers-in-sb_dirty-with-well-defined-bit-flags.patch md-remove-the-working_disks-and-failed_disks-from-raid5-state-data.patch md-remove-working_disks-from-raid10-state.patch md-remove-working_disks-from-raid1-state-data.patch md-improve-locking-around-error-handling.patch md-dm-reduce-stack-usage-with-stacked-block-devices.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html