This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nfsd: fix deadlock secinfo+readdir compound to the 4.4-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-deadlock-secinfo-readdir-compound.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 2f6fc056e899bd0144a08da5cacaecbe8997cd74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 16:36:21 -0800 Subject: nfsd: fix deadlock secinfo+readdir compound From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 2f6fc056e899bd0144a08da5cacaecbe8997cd74 upstream. nfsd_lookup_dentry exits with the parent filehandle locked. fh_put also unlocks if necessary (nfsd filehandle locking is probably too lenient), so it gets unlocked eventually, but if the following op in the compound needs to lock it again, we can deadlock. A fuzzer ran into this; normal clients don't send a secinfo followed by a readdir in the same compound. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c @@ -877,6 +877,7 @@ nfsd4_secinfo(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, st &exp, &dentry); if (err) return err; + fh_unlock(&cstate->current_fh); if (d_really_is_negative(dentry)) { exp_put(exp); err = nfserr_noent; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bfields@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/nfsd-fix-deadlock-secinfo-readdir-compound.patch queue-4.4/nfsd4-fix-bad-bounds-checking.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