From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 05eda6e75773592760285e10ac86c56d683be17f ] It is possible for free_blocked_lock() to be called twice concurrently, once from nfsd4_lock() and once from nfsd4_release_lockowner() calling remove_blocked_locks(). This is why a kref was added. It is perfectly safe for locks_delete_block() and kref_put() to be called in parallel as they use locking or atomicity respectively as protection. However locks_release_private() has no locking. It is safe for it to be called twice sequentially, but not concurrently. This patch moves that call from free_blocked_lock() where it could race with itself, to free_nbl() where it cannot. This will slightly delay the freeing of private info or release of the owner - but not by much. It is arguably more natural for this freeing to happen in free_nbl() where the structure itself is freed. This bug was found by code inspection - it has not been seen in practice. Fixes: 47446d74f170 ("nfsd4: add refcount for nfsd4_blocked_lock") Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c @@ -318,6 +318,7 @@ free_nbl(struct kref *kref) struct nfsd4_blocked_lock *nbl; nbl = container_of(kref, struct nfsd4_blocked_lock, nbl_kref); + locks_release_private(&nbl->nbl_lock); kfree(nbl); } @@ -325,7 +326,6 @@ static void free_blocked_lock(struct nfsd4_blocked_lock *nbl) { locks_delete_block(&nbl->nbl_lock); - locks_release_private(&nbl->nbl_lock); kref_put(&nbl->nbl_kref, free_nbl); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from cel@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.1/nfsd-simplify-code-around-svc_exit_thread-call-in-nfsd.patch queue-6.1/nfsd-separate-nfsd_last_thread-from-nfsd_put.patch queue-6.1/nfsd-simplify-error-paths-in-nfsd_svc.patch queue-6.1/nfsd-fix-a-regression-in-nfsd_setattr.patch queue-6.1/nfsd-drop-the-nfsd_put-helper.patch queue-6.1/nfsd-call-nfsd_last_thread-before-final-nfsd_put.patch queue-6.1/nfsd-don-t-call-locks_release_private-twice-concurrently.patch