This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ceph: fix potential race in ceph_check_caps to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ceph-fix-potential-race-in-ceph_check_caps.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 11634bc8e7482058edd555261a8d8cd6cc8b5177 Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Mar 20 16:45:45 2020 -0400 ceph: fix potential race in ceph_check_caps [ Upstream commit dc3da0461cc4b76f2d0c5b12247fcb3b520edbbf ] Nothing ensures that session will still be valid by the time we dereference the pointer. Take and put a reference. In principle, we should always be able to get a reference here, but throw a warning if that's ever not the case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/ceph/caps.c b/fs/ceph/caps.c index b2695919435e8..af563d73d252c 100644 --- a/fs/ceph/caps.c +++ b/fs/ceph/caps.c @@ -2013,12 +2013,24 @@ ack: 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); + if (session) { + mutex_lock(&session->s_mutex); + ceph_put_mds_session(session); + } else { + /* + * Because we take the reference while + * holding the i_ceph_lock, it should + * never be NULL. Throw a warning if it + * ever is. + */ + WARN_ON_ONCE(true); + } goto retry; } }