This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled smb3: fix Open files on server counter going negative 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: smb3-fix-open-files-on-server-counter-going-negative.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. >From 28e0947651ce6a2200b9a7eceb93282e97d7e51a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 23:16:08 -0500 Subject: smb3: fix Open files on server counter going negative From: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 28e0947651ce6a2200b9a7eceb93282e97d7e51a upstream. We were decrementing the count of open files on server twice for the case where we were closing cached directories. Fixes: 8e843bf38f7b ("cifs: return a single-use cfid if we did not get a lease") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Acked-by: Bharath SM <bharathsm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/smb/client/cached_dir.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/smb/client/cached_dir.c +++ b/fs/smb/client/cached_dir.c @@ -386,8 +386,8 @@ smb2_close_cached_fid(struct kref *ref) if (cfid->is_open) { rc = SMB2_close(0, cfid->tcon, cfid->fid.persistent_fid, cfid->fid.volatile_fid); - if (rc != -EBUSY && rc != -EAGAIN) - atomic_dec(&cfid->tcon->num_remote_opens); + if (rc) /* should we retry on -EBUSY or -EAGAIN? */ + cifs_dbg(VFS, "close cached dir rc %d\n", rc); } free_cached_dir(cfid); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.1/smb3-fix-open-files-on-server-counter-going-negative.patch