This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nfs4: start callback_ident at idr 1 to the 4.3-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: nfs4-start-callback_ident-at-idr-1.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.3 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c68a027c05709330fe5b2f50c50d5fa02124b5d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 09:56:20 -0500 Subject: nfs4: start callback_ident at idr 1 From: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx> commit c68a027c05709330fe5b2f50c50d5fa02124b5d8 upstream. If clp->cl_cb_ident is zero, then nfs_cb_idr_remove_locked() skips removing it when the nfs_client is freed. A decoding or server bug can then find and try to put that first nfs_client which would lead to a crash. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: d6870312659d ("nfs4client: convert to idr_alloc()") Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/nfs4client.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ static int nfs_get_cb_ident_idr(struct n return ret; idr_preload(GFP_KERNEL); spin_lock(&nn->nfs_client_lock); - ret = idr_alloc(&nn->cb_ident_idr, clp, 0, 0, GFP_NOWAIT); + ret = idr_alloc(&nn->cb_ident_idr, clp, 1, 0, GFP_NOWAIT); if (ret >= 0) clp->cl_cb_ident = ret; spin_unlock(&nn->nfs_client_lock); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.3/nfs4-start-callback_ident-at-idr-1.patch queue-4.3/nfs4-limit-callback-decoding-to-received-bytes.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html