From: Rohith Surabattula <rohiths@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 71826b068884050d5fdd37fda857ba1539c513d3 upstream. Below traces are observed during fsstress and system got hung. [ 130.698396] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#6 stuck for 26s! Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 5.13+ Signed-off-by: Rohith Surabattula <rohiths@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/misc.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/cifs/misc.c +++ b/fs/cifs/misc.c @@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ cifs_close_deferred_file(struct cifsInod if (cancel_delayed_work(&cfile->deferred)) { tmp_list = kmalloc(sizeof(struct file_list), GFP_ATOMIC); if (tmp_list == NULL) - continue; + break; tmp_list->cfile = cfile; list_add_tail(&tmp_list->list, &file_head); } @@ -767,7 +767,7 @@ cifs_close_all_deferred_files(struct cif if (cancel_delayed_work(&cfile->deferred)) { tmp_list = kmalloc(sizeof(struct file_list), GFP_ATOMIC); if (tmp_list == NULL) - continue; + break; tmp_list->cfile = cfile; list_add_tail(&tmp_list->list, &file_head); }