This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cifs: unlock on error in smb3_reconfigure() to the 6.6-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: cifs-unlock-on-error-in-smb3_reconfigure.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 8595fe32e32ab1af3e1aedc2b73457e84e0ff36a Author: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Nov 15 12:13:58 2024 +0300 cifs: unlock on error in smb3_reconfigure() [ Upstream commit cda88d2fef7aa7de80b5697e8009fcbbb436f42d ] Unlock before returning if smb3_sync_session_ctx_passwords() fails. Fixes: 7e654ab7da03 ("cifs: during remount, make sure passwords are in sync") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Bharath SM <bharathsm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/smb/client/fs_context.c b/fs/smb/client/fs_context.c index 6ba38bfa645b4..4e77ba191ef87 100644 --- a/fs/smb/client/fs_context.c +++ b/fs/smb/client/fs_context.c @@ -976,8 +976,10 @@ static int smb3_reconfigure(struct fs_context *fc) * later stage */ rc = smb3_sync_session_ctx_passwords(cifs_sb, ses); - if (rc) + if (rc) { + mutex_unlock(&ses->session_mutex); return rc; + } /* * now that allocations for passwords are done, commit them