This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nfsd: fix refcount leak when file is unhashed after being found 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: nfsd-fix-refcount-leak-when-file-is-unhashed-after-b.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 cd9dca1c8497f2d2b0c3b63bd6a54aff0810dc8b Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jul 10 09:05:32 2024 -0400 nfsd: fix refcount leak when file is unhashed after being found [ Upstream commit 8a7926176378460e0d91e02b03f0ff20a8709a60 ] If we wait_for_construction and find that the file is no longer hashed, and we're going to retry the open, the old nfsd_file reference is currently leaked. Put the reference before retrying. Fixes: c6593366c0bf ("nfsd: don't kill nfsd_files because of lease break error") Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Youzhong Yang <youzhong@xxxxxxxxx> 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 9101ad9175396..9e81f3a9097e0 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/filecache.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/filecache.c @@ -1055,6 +1055,7 @@ nfsd_file_do_acquire(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, status = nfserr_jukebox; goto construction_err; } + nfsd_file_put(nf); open_retry = false; goto retry; }