This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled lockd: double unregister of inetaddr notifiers to the 4.14-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: lockd-double-unregister-of-inetaddr-notifiers.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From dc3033e16c59a2c4e62b31341258a5786cbcee56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 17:33:18 +0300 Subject: lockd: double unregister of inetaddr notifiers From: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit dc3033e16c59a2c4e62b31341258a5786cbcee56 upstream. lockd_up() can call lockd_unregister_notifiers twice: inside lockd_start_svc() when it calls lockd_svc_exit_thread() and then in error path of lockd_up() Patch forces lockd_start_svc() to unregister notifiers in all error cases and removes extra unregister in error path of lockd_up(). Fixes: cb7d224f82e4 "lockd: unregister notifier blocks if the service ..." Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/lockd/svc.c | 20 +++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) --- a/fs/lockd/svc.c +++ b/fs/lockd/svc.c @@ -369,6 +369,7 @@ static int lockd_start_svc(struct svc_se printk(KERN_WARNING "lockd_up: svc_rqst allocation failed, error=%d\n", error); + lockd_unregister_notifiers(); goto out_rqst; } @@ -459,13 +460,16 @@ int lockd_up(struct net *net) } error = lockd_up_net(serv, net); - if (error < 0) - goto err_net; + if (error < 0) { + lockd_unregister_notifiers(); + goto err_put; + } error = lockd_start_svc(serv); - if (error < 0) - goto err_start; - + if (error < 0) { + lockd_down_net(serv, net); + goto err_put; + } nlmsvc_users++; /* * Note: svc_serv structures have an initial use count of 1, @@ -476,12 +480,6 @@ err_put: err_create: mutex_unlock(&nlmsvc_mutex); return error; - -err_start: - lockd_down_net(serv, net); -err_net: - lockd_unregister_notifiers(); - goto err_put; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(lockd_up); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/lockd-double-unregister-of-inetaddr-notifiers.patch