6.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> commit 88956eabfdea7d01d550535af120d4ef265b1d02 upstream. If /proc/fs/nfsd/pool_stats is open when the last nfsd thread exits, then when the file is closed a NULL pointer is dereferenced. This is because nfsd_pool_stats_release() assumes that the pointer to the svc_serv cannot become NULL while a reference is held. This used to be the case but a recent patch split nfsd_last_thread() out from nfsd_put(), and clearing the pointer is done in nfsd_last_thread(). This is easily reproduced by running rpc.nfsd 8 ; ( rpc.nfsd 0;true) < /proc/fs/nfsd/pool_stats Fortunately nfsd_pool_stats_release() has easy access to the svc_serv pointer, and so can call svc_put() on it directly. Fixes: 9f28a971ee9f ("nfsd: separate nfsd_last_thread() from nfsd_put()") Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c @@ -1124,11 +1124,12 @@ int nfsd_pool_stats_open(struct inode *i int nfsd_pool_stats_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { + struct seq_file *seq = file->private_data; + struct svc_serv *serv = seq->private; int ret = seq_release(inode, file); - struct net *net = inode->i_sb->s_fs_info; mutex_lock(&nfsd_mutex); - nfsd_put(net); + svc_put(serv); mutex_unlock(&nfsd_mutex); return ret; }