This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled NFS: Fix a delegation callback race to the 3.13-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: nfs-fix-a-delegation-callback-race.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.13 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 755a48a7a4eb05b9c8424e3017d947b2961a60e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 22:03:12 -0500 Subject: NFS: Fix a delegation callback race From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 755a48a7a4eb05b9c8424e3017d947b2961a60e0 upstream. The clean-up in commit 36281caa839f ended up removing a NULL pointer check that is needed in order to prevent an Oops in nfs_async_inode_return_delegation(). Reported-by: "Yan, Zheng" <zheng.z.yan@xxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5313E9F6.2020405@xxxxxxxxx Fixes: 36281caa839f (NFSv4: Further clean-ups of delegation stateid validation) Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/delegation.c | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/fs/nfs/delegation.c +++ b/fs/nfs/delegation.c @@ -659,16 +659,19 @@ int nfs_async_inode_return_delegation(st rcu_read_lock(); delegation = rcu_dereference(NFS_I(inode)->delegation); + if (delegation == NULL) + goto out_enoent; - if (!clp->cl_mvops->match_stateid(&delegation->stateid, stateid)) { - rcu_read_unlock(); - return -ENOENT; - } + if (!clp->cl_mvops->match_stateid(&delegation->stateid, stateid)) + goto out_enoent; nfs_mark_return_delegation(server, delegation); rcu_read_unlock(); nfs_delegation_run_state_manager(clp); return 0; +out_enoent: + rcu_read_unlock(); + return -ENOENT; } static struct inode * Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.13/nfs-fix-a-delegation-callback-race.patch queue-3.13/nfsv4-nfs4_stateid_is_current-should-return-true-for-an-invalid-stateid.patch queue-3.13/nfsv4-fix-another-nfs4_sequence-corruptor.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html