From: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 489f710a738e24d887823a010b8b206b4124e26f ] While removing an smb session, we need to free up the tcp session for each channel for that session. We were doing this with chan_lock held. This results in a cyclic dependency with cifs_tcp_ses_lock. For now, unlock the chan_lock temporarily before calling cifs_put_tcp_session. This should not cause any problem for now, since we do not remove channels anywhere else. And this code segment will not be called by two threads. When we do implement the code for removing channels, we will need to execute proper ref counting here. Signed-off-by: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/connect.c | 8 ++------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c index 1060164b984a7..4c8db1a91e940 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c @@ -1796,13 +1796,9 @@ void cifs_put_smb_ses(struct cifs_ses *ses) int i; for (i = 1; i < chan_count; i++) { - /* - * note: for now, we're okay accessing ses->chans - * without chan_lock. But when chans can go away, we'll - * need to introduce ref counting to make sure that chan - * is not freed from under us. - */ + spin_unlock(&ses->chan_lock); cifs_put_tcp_session(ses->chans[i].server, 0); + spin_lock(&ses->chan_lock); ses->chans[i].server = NULL; } } -- 2.34.1