This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled NFSD: Fix potential use-after-free in nfsd_file_put() to the 5.10-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: nfsd-fix-potential-use-after-free-in-nfsd_file_put.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 68bfd75749583bb37a073b7d719d34990e1771c1 Author: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue May 31 19:49:01 2022 -0400 NFSD: Fix potential use-after-free in nfsd_file_put() [ Upstream commit b6c71c66b0ad8f2b59d9bc08c7a5079b110bec01 ] nfsd_file_put_noref() can free @nf, so don't dereference @nf immediately upon return from nfsd_file_put_noref(). Suggested-by: Trond Myklebust <trondmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 999397926ab3 ("nfsd: Clean up nfsd_file_put()") Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/filecache.c b/fs/nfsd/filecache.c index 11c096b447401..fc0fcb3321537 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/filecache.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/filecache.c @@ -308,11 +308,12 @@ nfsd_file_put(struct nfsd_file *nf) if (test_bit(NFSD_FILE_HASHED, &nf->nf_flags) == 0) { nfsd_file_flush(nf); nfsd_file_put_noref(nf); - } else { + } else if (nf->nf_file) { nfsd_file_put_noref(nf); - if (nf->nf_file) - nfsd_file_schedule_laundrette(); - } + nfsd_file_schedule_laundrette(); + } else + nfsd_file_put_noref(nf); + if (atomic_long_read(&nfsd_filecache_count) >= NFSD_FILE_LRU_LIMIT) nfsd_file_gc(); }