3.2.50-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: David Jeffery <djeffery@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 1c327d962fc420aea046c16215a552710bde8231 upstream. In nlmsvc_retry_blocked, the check that the list is non-empty and acquiring the pointer of the first entry is unprotected by any lock. This allows a rare race condition when there is only one entry on the list. A function such as nlmsvc_grant_callback() can be called, which will temporarily remove the entry from the list. Between the list_empty() and list_entry(),the list may become empty, causing an invalid pointer to be used as an nlm_block, leading to a possible crash. This patch adds the nlm_block_lock around these calls to prevent concurrent use of the nlm_blocked list. This was a regression introduced by f904be9cc77f361d37d71468b13ff3d1a1823dea "lockd: Mostly remove BKL from the server". Cc: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Jeffery <djeffery@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/lockd/svclock.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/fs/lockd/svclock.c +++ b/fs/lockd/svclock.c @@ -913,6 +913,7 @@ nlmsvc_retry_blocked(void) unsigned long timeout = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT; struct nlm_block *block; + spin_lock(&nlm_blocked_lock); while (!list_empty(&nlm_blocked) && !kthread_should_stop()) { block = list_entry(nlm_blocked.next, struct nlm_block, b_list); @@ -922,6 +923,7 @@ nlmsvc_retry_blocked(void) timeout = block->b_when - jiffies; break; } + spin_unlock(&nlm_blocked_lock); dprintk("nlmsvc_retry_blocked(%p, when=%ld)\n", block, block->b_when); @@ -931,7 +933,9 @@ nlmsvc_retry_blocked(void) retry_deferred_block(block); } else nlmsvc_grant_blocked(block); + spin_lock(&nlm_blocked_lock); } + spin_unlock(&nlm_blocked_lock); return timeout; } -- 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