This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled NFSv4: fix a reference leak caused WARNING messages 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-fix-a-reference-leak-caused-warning-messages.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 366a1569bff3fe14abfdf9285e31e05e091745f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kinglong Mee <kinglongmee@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 22:29:14 +0800 Subject: NFSv4: fix a reference leak caused WARNING messages From: Kinglong Mee <kinglongmee@xxxxxxxxx> commit 366a1569bff3fe14abfdf9285e31e05e091745f5 upstream. Because nfs4_opendata_access() has close the state when access is denied, so the state isn't leak. Rather than revert the commit a974deee47, I'd like clean the strange state close. [ 1615.094218] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 1615.094607] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 23702 at lib/list_debug.c:31 __list_add_valid+0x8e/0xa0 [ 1615.094913] list_add double add: new=ffff9d7901d9f608, prev=ffff9d7901d9f608, next=ffff9d7901ee8dd0. [ 1615.095458] Modules linked in: nfsv4(E) nfs(E) nfsd(E) tun bridge stp llc fuse ip_set nfnetlink vmw_vsock_vmci_transport vsock f2fs snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event fscrypto coretemp ppdev crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel intel_rapl_perf vmw_balloon snd_ens1371 joydev gameport snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_seq snd_pcm snd_rawmidi snd_timer snd_seq_device snd soundcore nfit parport_pc parport acpi_cpufreq tpm_tis tpm_tis_core tpm i2c_piix4 vmw_vmci shpchp auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd(E) grace sunrpc(E) xfs libcrc32c vmwgfx drm_kms_helper ttm drm crc32c_intel mptspi e1000 serio_raw scsi_transport_spi mptscsih mptbase ata_generic pata_acpi fjes [last unloaded: nfs] [ 1615.097663] CPU: 0 PID: 23702 Comm: fstest Tainted: G W E 4.11.0-rc1+ #517 [ 1615.098015] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 07/02/2015 [ 1615.098807] Call Trace: [ 1615.099183] dump_stack+0x63/0x86 [ 1615.099578] __warn+0xcb/0xf0 [ 1615.099967] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x5f/0x80 [ 1615.100370] __list_add_valid+0x8e/0xa0 [ 1615.100760] nfs4_put_state_owner+0x75/0xc0 [nfsv4] [ 1615.101136] __nfs4_close+0x109/0x140 [nfsv4] [ 1615.101524] nfs4_close_state+0x15/0x20 [nfsv4] [ 1615.101949] nfs4_close_context+0x21/0x30 [nfsv4] [ 1615.102691] __put_nfs_open_context+0xb8/0x110 [nfs] [ 1615.103155] put_nfs_open_context+0x10/0x20 [nfs] [ 1615.103586] nfs4_file_open+0x13b/0x260 [nfsv4] [ 1615.103978] do_dentry_open+0x20a/0x2f0 [ 1615.104369] ? nfs4_copy_file_range+0x30/0x30 [nfsv4] [ 1615.104739] vfs_open+0x4c/0x70 [ 1615.105106] ? may_open+0x5a/0x100 [ 1615.105469] path_openat+0x623/0x1420 [ 1615.105823] do_filp_open+0x91/0x100 [ 1615.106174] ? __alloc_fd+0x3f/0x170 [ 1615.106568] do_sys_open+0x130/0x220 [ 1615.106920] ? __put_cred+0x3d/0x50 [ 1615.107256] SyS_open+0x1e/0x20 [ 1615.107588] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa9 [ 1615.107922] RIP: 0033:0x7fab599069b0 [ 1615.108247] RSP: 002b:00007ffcf0600d78 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000002 [ 1615.108575] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fab59bcfae0 RCX: 00007fab599069b0 [ 1615.108896] RDX: 0000000000000200 RSI: 0000000000000200 RDI: 00007ffcf060255e [ 1615.109211] RBP: 0000000000040010 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000016 [ 1615.109515] R10: 00000000000006a1 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000041000 [ 1615.109806] R13: 0000000000040010 R14: 0000000000001000 R15: 0000000000002710 [ 1615.110152] ---[ end trace 96ed63b1306bf2f3 ]--- Fixes: a974deee47 ("NFSv4: Fix memory and state leak in...") Signed-off-by: Kinglong Mee <kinglongmee@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c @@ -2343,8 +2343,6 @@ static int nfs4_opendata_access(struct r if ((mask & ~cache.mask & (MAY_READ | MAY_EXEC)) == 0) return 0; - /* even though OPEN succeeded, access is denied. Close the file */ - nfs4_close_state(state, fmode); return -EACCES; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kinglongmee@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/nfsv4.x-callback-create-the-callback-service-through-svc_create_pooled.patch queue-4.9/nfsv4-fix-a-reference-leak-caused-warning-messages.patch