This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nfsd: Make init_open_stateid() a bit more whole to the 4.4-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: nfsd-make-init_open_stateid-a-bit-more-whole.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 8c7245abda877d4689b3371db8ae2a4400d7d9ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Drokin <green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 23:28:06 -0400 Subject: nfsd: Make init_open_stateid() a bit more whole From: Oleg Drokin <green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 8c7245abda877d4689b3371db8ae2a4400d7d9ce upstream. Move the state selection logic inside from the caller, always making it return correct stp to use. Signed-off-by: J . Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 27 ++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c @@ -3420,13 +3420,14 @@ alloc_init_open_stateowner(unsigned int } static struct nfs4_ol_stateid * -init_open_stateid(struct nfs4_ol_stateid *stp, struct nfs4_file *fp, - struct nfsd4_open *open) +init_open_stateid(struct nfs4_file *fp, struct nfsd4_open *open) { struct nfs4_openowner *oo = open->op_openowner; struct nfs4_ol_stateid *retstp = NULL; + struct nfs4_ol_stateid *stp; + stp = open->op_stp; /* We are moving these outside of the spinlocks to avoid the warnings */ mutex_init(&stp->st_mutex); mutex_lock(&stp->st_mutex); @@ -3437,6 +3438,8 @@ init_open_stateid(struct nfs4_ol_stateid retstp = nfsd4_find_existing_open(fp, open); if (retstp) goto out_unlock; + + open->op_stp = NULL; atomic_inc(&stp->st_stid.sc_count); stp->st_stid.sc_type = NFS4_OPEN_STID; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&stp->st_locks); @@ -3454,10 +3457,11 @@ out_unlock: spin_unlock(&oo->oo_owner.so_client->cl_lock); if (retstp) { mutex_lock(&retstp->st_mutex); - /* Not that we need to, just for neatness */ + /* To keep mutex tracking happy */ mutex_unlock(&stp->st_mutex); + stp = retstp; } - return retstp; + return stp; } /* @@ -4260,7 +4264,6 @@ nfsd4_process_open2(struct svc_rqst *rqs struct nfs4_client *cl = open->op_openowner->oo_owner.so_client; struct nfs4_file *fp = NULL; struct nfs4_ol_stateid *stp = NULL; - struct nfs4_ol_stateid *swapstp = NULL; struct nfs4_delegation *dp = NULL; __be32 status; @@ -4297,16 +4300,10 @@ nfsd4_process_open2(struct svc_rqst *rqs goto out; } } else { - stp = open->op_stp; - open->op_stp = NULL; - /* - * init_open_stateid() either returns a locked stateid - * it found, or initializes and locks the new one we passed in - */ - swapstp = init_open_stateid(stp, fp, open); - if (swapstp) { - nfs4_put_stid(&stp->st_stid); - stp = swapstp; + /* stp is returned locked. */ + stp = init_open_stateid(fp, open); + /* See if we lost the race to some other thread */ + if (stp->st_access_bmap != 0) { status = nfs4_upgrade_open(rqstp, fp, current_fh, stp, open); if (status) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/nfsd-make-init_open_stateid-a-bit-more-whole.patch