5.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 665e89ab7c5af1f2d260834c861a74b01a30f95f ] The below-mentioned patch was intended to simplify refcounting on the svc_serv used by locked. The goal was to only ever have a single reference from the single thread. To that end we dropped a call to lockd_start_svc() (except when creating thread) which would take a reference, and dropped the svc_put(serv) that would drop that reference. Unfortunately we didn't also remove the svc_get() from lockd_create_svc() in the case where the svc_serv already existed. So after the patch: - on the first call the svc_serv was allocated and the one reference was given to the thread, so there are no extra references - on subsequent calls svc_get() was called so there is now an extra reference. This is clearly not consistent. The inconsistency is also clear in the current code in lockd_get() takes *two* references, one on nlmsvc_serv and one by incrementing nlmsvc_users. This clearly does not match lockd_put(). So: drop that svc_get() from lockd_get() (which used to be in lockd_create_svc(). Reported-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxx> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/ZHsI%2FH16VX9kJQX1@shredder/T/#u Fixes: b73a2972041b ("lockd: move lockd_start_svc() call into lockd_create_svc()") Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Tested-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/lockd/svc.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/lockd/svc.c b/fs/lockd/svc.c index 59ef8a1f843f3..5579e67da17db 100644 --- a/fs/lockd/svc.c +++ b/fs/lockd/svc.c @@ -355,7 +355,6 @@ static int lockd_get(void) int error; if (nlmsvc_serv) { - svc_get(nlmsvc_serv); nlmsvc_users++; return 0; } -- 2.43.0