4.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Stefan Raspl <stefan.raspl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit bda27ff5c4526f80a7620a94ecfe8dca153e3696 ] The sendpage() call grabs the sock lock before calling the default implementation - which tries to grab it once again. Signed-off-by: Stefan Raspl <raspl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ubraun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>< Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/smc/af_smc.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/smc/af_smc.c +++ b/net/smc/af_smc.c @@ -1313,8 +1313,11 @@ static ssize_t smc_sendpage(struct socke smc = smc_sk(sk); lock_sock(sk); - if (sk->sk_state != SMC_ACTIVE) + if (sk->sk_state != SMC_ACTIVE) { + release_sock(sk); goto out; + } + release_sock(sk); if (smc->use_fallback) rc = kernel_sendpage(smc->clcsock, page, offset, size, flags); @@ -1322,7 +1325,6 @@ static ssize_t smc_sendpage(struct socke rc = sock_no_sendpage(sock, page, offset, size, flags); out: - release_sock(sk); return rc; }