This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled NFSv4.1: Fix a race where CB_NOTIFY_LOCK fails to wake a waiter to the 4.12-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-race-where-cb_notify_lock-fails-to-wake-a-waiter.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From b7dbcc0e433f0f61acb89ed9861ec996be4f2b38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 12:33:54 -0400 Subject: NFSv4.1: Fix a race where CB_NOTIFY_LOCK fails to wake a waiter From: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx> commit b7dbcc0e433f0f61acb89ed9861ec996be4f2b38 upstream. nfs4_retry_setlk() sets the task's state to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE within the same region protected by the wait_queue's lock after checking for a notification from CB_NOTIFY_LOCK callback. However, after releasing that lock, a wakeup for that task may race in before the call to freezable_schedule_timeout_interruptible() and set TASK_WAKING, then freezable_schedule_timeout_interruptible() will set the state back to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE before the task will sleep. The result is that the task will sleep for the entire duration of the timeout. Since we've already set TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE in the locked section, just use freezable_schedule_timout() instead. Fixes: a1d617d8f134 ("nfs: allow blocking locks to be awoken by lock callbacks") Signed-off-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c @@ -6441,7 +6441,7 @@ nfs4_retry_setlk(struct nfs4_state *stat set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags); - freezable_schedule_timeout_interruptible(NFS4_LOCK_MAXTIMEOUT); + freezable_schedule_timeout(NFS4_LOCK_MAXTIMEOUT); } finish_wait(q, &wait); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.12/nfsv4.1-fix-a-race-where-cb_notify_lock-fails-to-wake-a-waiter.patch