This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled NFSv4.1: Fix a deadlock in layoutget to the 4.9-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: nfsv4.1-fix-a-deadlock-in-layoutget.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 8ac092519ad91931c96d306c4bfae2c6587c325f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 22:44:12 -0500 Subject: NFSv4.1: Fix a deadlock in layoutget From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 8ac092519ad91931c96d306c4bfae2c6587c325f upstream. We cannot call nfs4_handle_exception() without first ensuring that the slot has been freed. If not, we end up deadlocking with the process waiting for recovery to complete, and recovery waiting for the slot table to drain. Fixes: 2e80dbe7ac51 ("NFSv4.1: Close callback races for OPEN, LAYOUTGET...") Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c @@ -8371,6 +8371,7 @@ nfs4_layoutget_handle_exception(struct r goto out; } + nfs4_sequence_free_slot(&lgp->res.seq_res); err = nfs4_handle_exception(server, nfs4err, exception); if (!status) { if (exception->retry) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/nfsv4.0-always-send-mode-in-setattr-after-exclusive4.patch queue-4.9/sunrpc-cleanup-ida-information-when-removing-sunrpc-module.patch queue-4.9/nfsv4.1-fix-a-deadlock-in-layoutget.patch queue-4.9/nfs-don-t-increment-lock-sequence-id-after-nfs4err_moved.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