This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ksmbd: call putname after using the last component to the 6.1-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: ksmbd-call-putname-after-using-the-last-component.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 0eeb3a5731237857b6fc5caa1ccdbeb9e8930c98 Author: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Dec 31 16:12:40 2023 +0900 ksmbd: call putname after using the last component [ Upstream commit 6fe55c2799bc29624770c26f98ba7b06214f43e0 ] last component point filename struct. Currently putname is called after vfs_path_parent_lookup(). And then last component is used for lookup_one_qstr_excl(). name in last component is freed by previous calling putname(). And It cause file lookup failure when testing generic/464 test of xfstest. Fixes: 74d7970febf7 ("ksmbd: fix racy issue from using ->d_parent and ->d_name") Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/smb/server/vfs.c b/fs/smb/server/vfs.c index 5d2bb58d77e80..ebcd5a312f10d 100644 --- a/fs/smb/server/vfs.c +++ b/fs/smb/server/vfs.c @@ -87,12 +87,14 @@ static int ksmbd_vfs_path_lookup_locked(struct ksmbd_share_config *share_conf, err = vfs_path_parent_lookup(filename, flags, &parent_path, &last, &type, root_share_path); - putname(filename); - if (err) + if (err) { + putname(filename); return err; + } if (unlikely(type != LAST_NORM)) { path_put(&parent_path); + putname(filename); return -ENOENT; } @@ -109,12 +111,14 @@ static int ksmbd_vfs_path_lookup_locked(struct ksmbd_share_config *share_conf, path->dentry = d; path->mnt = share_conf->vfs_path.mnt; path_put(&parent_path); + putname(filename); return 0; err_out: inode_unlock(parent_path.dentry->d_inode); path_put(&parent_path); + putname(filename); return -ENOENT; }