This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fs: dlm: handle -EBUSY first in lock arg validation to the 4.9-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: fs-dlm-handle-ebusy-first-in-lock-arg-validation.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 44637ca41d551d409a481117b07fa209b330fca9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 15:43:15 -0400 Subject: fs: dlm: handle -EBUSY first in lock arg validation From: Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 44637ca41d551d409a481117b07fa209b330fca9 upstream. During lock arg validation, first check for -EBUSY cases, then for -EINVAL cases. The -EINVAL checks look at lkb state variables which are not stable when an lkb is busy and would cause an -EBUSY result, e.g. lkb->lkb_grmode. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/dlm/lock.c | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/fs/dlm/lock.c +++ b/fs/dlm/lock.c @@ -2888,24 +2888,24 @@ static int set_unlock_args(uint32_t flag static int validate_lock_args(struct dlm_ls *ls, struct dlm_lkb *lkb, struct dlm_args *args) { - int rv = -EINVAL; + int rv = -EBUSY; if (args->flags & DLM_LKF_CONVERT) { - if (lkb->lkb_flags & DLM_IFL_MSTCPY) + if (lkb->lkb_status != DLM_LKSTS_GRANTED) goto out; - if (args->flags & DLM_LKF_QUECVT && - !__quecvt_compat_matrix[lkb->lkb_grmode+1][args->mode+1]) + if (lkb->lkb_wait_type) goto out; - rv = -EBUSY; - if (lkb->lkb_status != DLM_LKSTS_GRANTED) + if (is_overlap(lkb)) goto out; - if (lkb->lkb_wait_type) + rv = -EINVAL; + if (lkb->lkb_flags & DLM_IFL_MSTCPY) goto out; - if (is_overlap(lkb)) + if (args->flags & DLM_LKF_QUECVT && + !__quecvt_compat_matrix[lkb->lkb_grmode+1][args->mode+1]) goto out; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/fs-dlm-handle-ebusy-first-in-lock-arg-validation.patch queue-4.9/fs-dlm-fix-race-between-test_bit-and-queue_work.patch