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CVSS v3.1 |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tpm: Lock TPM chip in tpm_pm_suspend() first
Setting TPM_CHIP_FLAG_SUSPENDED in the end of tpm_pm_suspend() can be racy
according, as this leaves window for tpm_hwrng_read() to be called while
the operation is in progress. The recent bug report gives also evidence of
this behaviour.
Aadress this by locking the TPM chip before checking any chip->flags both
in tpm_pm_suspend() and tpm_hwrng_read(). Move TPM_CHIP_FLAG_SUSPENDED
check inside tpm_get_random() so that it will be always checked only when
the lock is reserved. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm cache: fix flushing uninitialized delayed_work on cache_ctr error
An unexpected WARN_ON from flush_work() may occur when cache creation
fails, caused by destroying the uninitialized delayed_work waker in the
error path of cache_create(). For example, the warning appears on the
superblock checksum error.
Reproduce steps:
dmsetup create cmeta --table "0 8192 linear /dev/sdc 0"
dmsetup create cdata --table "0 65536 linear /dev/sdc 8192"
dmsetup create corig --table "0 524288 linear /dev/sdc 262144"
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/mapper/cmeta bs=4k count=1 oflag=direct
dmsetup create cache --table "0 524288 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \
/dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 writethrough smq 0"
Kernel logs:
(snip)
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 84 at kernel/workqueue.c:4178 __flush_work+0x5d4/0x890
Fix by pulling out the cancel_delayed_work_sync() from the constructor's
error path. This patch doesn't affect the use-after-free fix for
concurrent dm_resume and dm_destroy (commit 6a459d8edbdb ("dm cache: Fix
UAF in destroy()")) as cache_dtr is not changed. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ACPI: CPPC: Make rmw_lock a raw_spin_lock
The following BUG was triggered:
=============================
[ BUG: Invalid wait context ]
6.12.0-rc2-XXX #406 Not tainted
-----------------------------
kworker/1:1/62 is trying to lock:
ffffff8801593030 (&cpc_ptr->rmw_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: cpc_write+0xcc/0x370
other info that might help us debug this:
context-{5:5}
2 locks held by kworker/1:1/62:
#0: ffffff897ef5ec98 (&rq->__lock){-.-.}-{2:2}, at: raw_spin_rq_lock_nested+0x2c/0x50
#1: ffffff880154e238 (&sg_policy->update_lock){....}-{2:2}, at: sugov_update_shared+0x3c/0x280
stack backtrace:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 62 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc2-g9654bd3e8806 #406
Workqueue: 0x0 (events)
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0xa4/0x130
show_stack+0x20/0x38
dump_stack_lvl+0x90/0xd0
dump_stack+0x18/0x28
__lock_acquire+0x480/0x1ad8
lock_acquire+0x114/0x310
_raw_spin_lock+0x50/0x70
cpc_write+0xcc/0x370
cppc_set_perf+0xa0/0x3a8
cppc_cpufreq_fast_switch+0x40/0xc0
cpufreq_driver_fast_switch+0x4c/0x218
sugov_update_shared+0x234/0x280
update_load_avg+0x6ec/0x7b8
dequeue_entities+0x108/0x830
dequeue_task_fair+0x58/0x408
__schedule+0x4f0/0x1070
schedule+0x54/0x130
worker_thread+0xc0/0x2e8
kthread+0x130/0x148
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
sugov_update_shared() locks a raw_spinlock while cpc_write() locks a
spinlock.
To have a correct wait-type order, update rmw_lock to a raw spinlock and
ensure that interrupts will be disabled on the CPU holding it.
[ rjw: Changelog edits ] |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nilfs2: fix potential deadlock with newly created symlinks
Syzbot reported that page_symlink(), called by nilfs_symlink(), triggers
memory reclamation involving the filesystem layer, which can result in
circular lock dependencies among the reader/writer semaphore
nilfs->ns_segctor_sem, s_writers percpu_rwsem (intwrite) and the
fs_reclaim pseudo lock.
This is because after commit 21fc61c73c39 ("don't put symlink bodies in
pagecache into highmem"), the gfp flags of the page cache for symbolic
links are overwritten to GFP_KERNEL via inode_nohighmem().
This is not a problem for symlinks read from the backing device, because
the __GFP_FS flag is dropped after inode_nohighmem() is called. However,
when a new symlink is created with nilfs_symlink(), the gfp flags remain
overwritten to GFP_KERNEL. Then, memory allocation called from
page_symlink() etc. triggers memory reclamation including the FS layer,
which may call nilfs_evict_inode() or nilfs_dirty_inode(). And these can
cause a deadlock if they are called while nilfs->ns_segctor_sem is held:
Fix this issue by dropping the __GFP_FS flag from the page cache GFP flags
of newly created symlinks in the same way that nilfs_new_inode() and
__nilfs_read_inode() do, as a workaround until we adopt nofs allocation
scope consistently or improve the locking constraints. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ocfs2: remove unreasonable unlock in ocfs2_read_blocks
Patch series "Misc fixes for ocfs2_read_blocks", v5.
This series contains 2 fixes for ocfs2_read_blocks(). The first patch fix
the issue reported by syzbot, which detects bad unlock balance in
ocfs2_read_blocks(). The second patch fixes an issue reported by Heming
Zhao when reviewing above fix.
This patch (of 2):
There was a lock release before exiting, so remove the unreasonable unlock. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rtmutex: Drop rt_mutex::wait_lock before scheduling
rt_mutex_handle_deadlock() is called with rt_mutex::wait_lock held. In the
good case it returns with the lock held and in the deadlock case it emits a
warning and goes into an endless scheduling loop with the lock held, which
triggers the 'scheduling in atomic' warning.
Unlock rt_mutex::wait_lock in the dead lock case before issuing the warning
and dropping into the schedule for ever loop.
[ tglx: Moved unlock before the WARN(), removed the pointless comment,
massaged changelog, added Fixes tag ] |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bonding: change ipsec_lock from spin lock to mutex
In the cited commit, bond->ipsec_lock is added to protect ipsec_list,
hence xdo_dev_state_add and xdo_dev_state_delete are called inside
this lock. As ipsec_lock is a spin lock and such xfrmdev ops may sleep,
"scheduling while atomic" will be triggered when changing bond's
active slave.
[ 101.055189] BUG: scheduling while atomic: bash/902/0x00000200
[ 101.055726] Modules linked in:
[ 101.058211] CPU: 3 PID: 902 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.9.0-rc4+ #1
[ 101.058760] Hardware name:
[ 101.059434] Call Trace:
[ 101.059436] <TASK>
[ 101.060873] dump_stack_lvl+0x51/0x60
[ 101.061275] __schedule_bug+0x4e/0x60
[ 101.061682] __schedule+0x612/0x7c0
[ 101.062078] ? __mod_timer+0x25c/0x370
[ 101.062486] schedule+0x25/0xd0
[ 101.062845] schedule_timeout+0x77/0xf0
[ 101.063265] ? asm_common_interrupt+0x22/0x40
[ 101.063724] ? __bpf_trace_itimer_state+0x10/0x10
[ 101.064215] __wait_for_common+0x87/0x190
[ 101.064648] ? usleep_range_state+0x90/0x90
[ 101.065091] cmd_exec+0x437/0xb20 [mlx5_core]
[ 101.065569] mlx5_cmd_do+0x1e/0x40 [mlx5_core]
[ 101.066051] mlx5_cmd_exec+0x18/0x30 [mlx5_core]
[ 101.066552] mlx5_crypto_create_dek_key+0xea/0x120 [mlx5_core]
[ 101.067163] ? bonding_sysfs_store_option+0x4d/0x80 [bonding]
[ 101.067738] ? kmalloc_trace+0x4d/0x350
[ 101.068156] mlx5_ipsec_create_sa_ctx+0x33/0x100 [mlx5_core]
[ 101.068747] mlx5e_xfrm_add_state+0x47b/0xaa0 [mlx5_core]
[ 101.069312] bond_change_active_slave+0x392/0x900 [bonding]
[ 101.069868] bond_option_active_slave_set+0x1c2/0x240 [bonding]
[ 101.070454] __bond_opt_set+0xa6/0x430 [bonding]
[ 101.070935] __bond_opt_set_notify+0x2f/0x90 [bonding]
[ 101.071453] bond_opt_tryset_rtnl+0x72/0xb0 [bonding]
[ 101.071965] bonding_sysfs_store_option+0x4d/0x80 [bonding]
[ 101.072567] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x10c/0x1a0
[ 101.073033] vfs_write+0x2d8/0x400
[ 101.073416] ? alloc_fd+0x48/0x180
[ 101.073798] ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0
[ 101.074175] do_syscall_64+0x52/0x110
[ 101.074576] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
As bond_ipsec_add_sa_all and bond_ipsec_del_sa_all are only called
from bond_change_active_slave, which requires holding the RTNL lock.
And bond_ipsec_add_sa and bond_ipsec_del_sa are xfrm state
xdo_dev_state_add and xdo_dev_state_delete APIs, which are in user
context. So ipsec_lock doesn't have to be spin lock, change it to
mutex, and thus the above issue can be resolved. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
serial: sc16is7xx: fix TX fifo corruption
Sometimes, when a packet is received on channel A at almost the same time
as a packet is about to be transmitted on channel B, we observe with a
logic analyzer that the received packet on channel A is transmitted on
channel B. In other words, the Tx buffer data on channel B is corrupted
with data from channel A.
The problem appeared since commit 4409df5866b7 ("serial: sc16is7xx: change
EFR lock to operate on each channels"), which changed the EFR locking to
operate on each channel instead of chip-wise.
This commit has introduced a regression, because the EFR lock is used not
only to protect the EFR registers access, but also, in a very obscure and
undocumented way, to protect access to the data buffer, which is shared by
the Tx and Rx handlers, but also by each channel of the IC.
Fix this regression first by switching to kfifo_out_linear_ptr() in
sc16is7xx_handle_tx() to eliminate the need for a shared Rx/Tx buffer.
Secondly, replace the chip-wise Rx buffer with a separate Rx buffer for
each channel. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
riscv: kexec: Avoid deadlock in kexec crash path
If the kexec crash code is called in the interrupt context, the
machine_kexec_mask_interrupts() function will trigger a deadlock while
trying to acquire the irqdesc spinlock and then deactivate irqchip in
irq_set_irqchip_state() function.
Unlike arm64, riscv only requires irq_eoi handler to complete EOI and
keeping irq_set_irqchip_state() will only leave this possible deadlock
without any use. So we simply remove it. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ks8851: Fix deadlock with the SPI chip variant
When SMP is enabled and spinlocks are actually functional then there is
a deadlock with the 'statelock' spinlock between ks8851_start_xmit_spi
and ks8851_irq:
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 27s!
call trace:
queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x100/0x284
do_raw_spin_lock+0x34/0x44
ks8851_start_xmit_spi+0x30/0xb8
ks8851_start_xmit+0x14/0x20
netdev_start_xmit+0x40/0x6c
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x6c/0xbc
sch_direct_xmit+0xa4/0x22c
__qdisc_run+0x138/0x3fc
qdisc_run+0x24/0x3c
net_tx_action+0xf8/0x130
handle_softirqs+0x1ac/0x1f0
__do_softirq+0x14/0x20
____do_softirq+0x10/0x1c
call_on_irq_stack+0x3c/0x58
do_softirq_own_stack+0x1c/0x28
__irq_exit_rcu+0x54/0x9c
irq_exit_rcu+0x10/0x1c
el1_interrupt+0x38/0x50
el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
el1h_64_irq+0x64/0x68
__netif_schedule+0x6c/0x80
netif_tx_wake_queue+0x38/0x48
ks8851_irq+0xb8/0x2c8
irq_thread_fn+0x2c/0x74
irq_thread+0x10c/0x1b0
kthread+0xc8/0xd8
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
This issue has not been identified earlier because tests were done on
a device with SMP disabled and so spinlocks were actually NOPs.
Now use spin_(un)lock_bh for TX queue related locking to avoid execution
of softirq work synchronously that would lead to a deadlock. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211: Fix deadlock in ieee80211_sta_ps_deliver_wakeup()
The ieee80211_sta_ps_deliver_wakeup() function takes sta->ps_lock to
synchronizes with ieee80211_tx_h_unicast_ps_buf() which is called from
softirq context. However using only spin_lock() to get sta->ps_lock in
ieee80211_sta_ps_deliver_wakeup() does not prevent softirq to execute
on this same CPU, to run ieee80211_tx_h_unicast_ps_buf() and try to
take this same lock ending in deadlock. Below is an example of rcu stall
that arises in such situation.
rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU
rcu: 2-....: (42413413 ticks this GP) idle=b154/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=1763/1765 fqs=21206996
rcu: (t=42586894 jiffies g=2057 q=362405 ncpus=4)
CPU: 2 PID: 719 Comm: wpa_supplicant Tainted: G W 6.4.0-02158-g1b062f552873 #742
Hardware name: RPT (r1) (DT)
pstate: 00000005 (nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x58/0x2d0
lr : invoke_tx_handlers_early+0x5b4/0x5c0
sp : ffff00001ef64660
x29: ffff00001ef64660 x28: ffff000009bc1070 x27: ffff000009bc0ad8
x26: ffff000009bc0900 x25: ffff00001ef647a8 x24: 0000000000000000
x23: ffff000009bc0900 x22: ffff000009bc0900 x21: ffff00000ac0e000
x20: ffff00000a279e00 x19: ffff00001ef646e8 x18: 0000000000000000
x17: ffff800016468000 x16: ffff00001ef608c0 x15: 0010533c93f64f80
x14: 0010395c9faa3946 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 00000000fa83b2da
x11: 000000012edeceea x10: ffff0000010fbe00 x9 : 0000000000895440
x8 : 000000000010533c x7 : ffff00000ad8b740 x6 : ffff00000c350880
x5 : 0000000000000007 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : 0000000000000000
x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000001 x0 : ffff00000ac0e0e8
Call trace:
queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x58/0x2d0
ieee80211_tx+0x80/0x12c
ieee80211_tx_pending+0x110/0x278
tasklet_action_common.constprop.0+0x10c/0x144
tasklet_action+0x20/0x28
_stext+0x11c/0x284
____do_softirq+0xc/0x14
call_on_irq_stack+0x24/0x34
do_softirq_own_stack+0x18/0x20
do_softirq+0x74/0x7c
__local_bh_enable_ip+0xa0/0xa4
_ieee80211_wake_txqs+0x3b0/0x4b8
__ieee80211_wake_queue+0x12c/0x168
ieee80211_add_pending_skbs+0xec/0x138
ieee80211_sta_ps_deliver_wakeup+0x2a4/0x480
ieee80211_mps_sta_status_update.part.0+0xd8/0x11c
ieee80211_mps_sta_status_update+0x18/0x24
sta_apply_parameters+0x3bc/0x4c0
ieee80211_change_station+0x1b8/0x2dc
nl80211_set_station+0x444/0x49c
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0xa4/0xfc
genl_rcv_msg+0x1b0/0x244
netlink_rcv_skb+0x38/0x10c
genl_rcv+0x34/0x48
netlink_unicast+0x254/0x2bc
netlink_sendmsg+0x190/0x3b4
____sys_sendmsg+0x1e8/0x218
___sys_sendmsg+0x68/0x8c
__sys_sendmsg+0x44/0x84
__arm64_sys_sendmsg+0x20/0x28
do_el0_svc+0x6c/0xe8
el0_svc+0x14/0x48
el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb0/0xb4
el0t_64_sync+0x14c/0x150
Using spin_lock_bh()/spin_unlock_bh() instead prevents softirq to raise
on the same CPU that is holding the lock. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
md/raid5: fix deadlock that raid5d() wait for itself to clear MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING
Xiao reported that lvm2 test lvconvert-raid-takeover.sh can hang with
small possibility, the root cause is exactly the same as commit
bed9e27baf52 ("Revert "md/raid5: Wait for MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING in raid5d"")
However, Dan reported another hang after that, and junxiao investigated
the problem and found out that this is caused by plugged bio can't issue
from raid5d().
Current implementation in raid5d() has a weird dependence:
1) md_check_recovery() from raid5d() must hold 'reconfig_mutex' to clear
MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING;
2) raid5d() handles IO in a deadloop, until all IO are issued;
3) IO from raid5d() must wait for MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING to be cleared;
This behaviour is introduce before v2.6, and for consequence, if other
context hold 'reconfig_mutex', and md_check_recovery() can't update
super_block, then raid5d() will waste one cpu 100% by the deadloop, until
'reconfig_mutex' is released.
Refer to the implementation from raid1 and raid10, fix this problem by
skipping issue IO if MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING is still set after
md_check_recovery(), daemon thread will be woken up when 'reconfig_mutex'
is released. Meanwhile, the hang problem will be fixed as well. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dma-buf/sw-sync: don't enable IRQ from sync_print_obj()
Since commit a6aa8fca4d79 ("dma-buf/sw-sync: Reduce irqsave/irqrestore from
known context") by error replaced spin_unlock_irqrestore() with
spin_unlock_irq() for both sync_debugfs_show() and sync_print_obj() despite
sync_print_obj() is called from sync_debugfs_show(), lockdep complains
inconsistent lock state warning.
Use plain spin_{lock,unlock}() for sync_print_obj(), for
sync_debugfs_show() is already using spin_{lock,unlock}_irq(). |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
md: fix resync softlockup when bitmap size is less than array size
Is is reported that for dm-raid10, lvextend + lvchange --syncaction will
trigger following softlockup:
kernel:watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 26s! [mdX_resync:6976]
CPU: 7 PID: 3588 Comm: mdX_resync Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.9.0-rc4-next-20240419 #1
RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x13/0x30
Call Trace:
<TASK>
md_bitmap_start_sync+0x6b/0xf0
raid10_sync_request+0x25c/0x1b40 [raid10]
md_do_sync+0x64b/0x1020
md_thread+0xa7/0x170
kthread+0xcf/0x100
ret_from_fork+0x30/0x50
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
And the detailed process is as follows:
md_do_sync
j = mddev->resync_min
while (j < max_sectors)
sectors = raid10_sync_request(mddev, j, &skipped)
if (!md_bitmap_start_sync(..., &sync_blocks))
// md_bitmap_start_sync set sync_blocks to 0
return sync_blocks + sectors_skippe;
// sectors = 0;
j += sectors;
// j never change
Root cause is that commit 301867b1c168 ("md/raid10: check
slab-out-of-bounds in md_bitmap_get_counter") return early from
md_bitmap_get_counter(), without setting returned blocks.
Fix this problem by always set returned blocks from
md_bitmap_get_counter"(), as it used to be.
Noted that this patch just fix the softlockup problem in kernel, the
case that bitmap size doesn't match array size still need to be fixed. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
soc: fsl: qbman: Always disable interrupts when taking cgr_lock
smp_call_function_single disables IRQs when executing the callback. To
prevent deadlocks, we must disable IRQs when taking cgr_lock elsewhere.
This is already done by qman_update_cgr and qman_delete_cgr; fix the
other lockers. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
interconnect: Don't access req_list while it's being manipulated
The icc_lock mutex was split into separate icc_lock and icc_bw_lock
mutexes in [1] to avoid lockdep splats. However, this didn't adequately
protect access to icc_node::req_list.
The icc_set_bw() function will eventually iterate over req_list while
only holding icc_bw_lock, but req_list can be modified while only
holding icc_lock. This causes races between icc_set_bw(), of_icc_get(),
and icc_put().
Example A:
CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
icc_set_bw(path_a)
mutex_lock(&icc_bw_lock);
icc_put(path_b)
mutex_lock(&icc_lock);
aggregate_requests()
hlist_for_each_entry(r, ...
hlist_del(...
<r = invalid pointer>
Example B:
CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
icc_set_bw(path_a)
mutex_lock(&icc_bw_lock);
path_b = of_icc_get()
of_icc_get_by_index()
mutex_lock(&icc_lock);
path_find()
path_init()
aggregate_requests()
hlist_for_each_entry(r, ...
hlist_add_head(...
<r = invalid pointer>
Fix this by ensuring icc_bw_lock is always held before manipulating
icc_node::req_list. The additional places icc_bw_lock is held don't
perform any memory allocations, so we should still be safe from the
original lockdep splats that motivated the separate locks.
[1] commit af42269c3523 ("interconnect: Fix locking for runpm vs reclaim") |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nf_tables: release mutex after nft_gc_seq_end from abort path
The commit mutex should not be released during the critical section
between nft_gc_seq_begin() and nft_gc_seq_end(), otherwise, async GC
worker could collect expired objects and get the released commit lock
within the same GC sequence.
nf_tables_module_autoload() temporarily releases the mutex to load
module dependencies, then it goes back to replay the transaction again.
Move it at the end of the abort phase after nft_gc_seq_end() is called. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
inet: read sk->sk_family once in inet_recv_error()
inet_recv_error() is called without holding the socket lock.
IPv6 socket could mutate to IPv4 with IPV6_ADDRFORM
socket option and trigger a KCSAN warning. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nf_tables: mark set as dead when unbinding anonymous set with timeout
While the rhashtable set gc runs asynchronously, a race allows it to
collect elements from anonymous sets with timeouts while it is being
released from the commit path.
Mingi Cho originally reported this issue in a different path in 6.1.x
with a pipapo set with low timeouts which is not possible upstream since
7395dfacfff6 ("netfilter: nf_tables: use timestamp to check for set
element timeout").
Fix this by setting on the dead flag for anonymous sets to skip async gc
in this case.
According to 08e4c8c5919f ("netfilter: nf_tables: mark newset as dead on
transaction abort"), Florian plans to accelerate abort path by releasing
objects via workqueue, therefore, this sets on the dead flag for abort
path too. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfsd: fix RELEASE_LOCKOWNER
The test on so_count in nfsd4_release_lockowner() is nonsense and
harmful. Revert to using check_for_locks(), changing that to not sleep.
First: harmful.
As is documented in the kdoc comment for nfsd4_release_lockowner(), the
test on so_count can transiently return a false positive resulting in a
return of NFS4ERR_LOCKS_HELD when in fact no locks are held. This is
clearly a protocol violation and with the Linux NFS client it can cause
incorrect behaviour.
If RELEASE_LOCKOWNER is sent while some other thread is still
processing a LOCK request which failed because, at the time that request
was received, the given owner held a conflicting lock, then the nfsd
thread processing that LOCK request can hold a reference (conflock) to
the lock owner that causes nfsd4_release_lockowner() to return an
incorrect error.
The Linux NFS client ignores that NFS4ERR_LOCKS_HELD error because it
never sends NFS4_RELEASE_LOCKOWNER without first releasing any locks, so
it knows that the error is impossible. It assumes the lock owner was in
fact released so it feels free to use the same lock owner identifier in
some later locking request.
When it does reuse a lock owner identifier for which a previous RELEASE
failed, it will naturally use a lock_seqid of zero. However the server,
which didn't release the lock owner, will expect a larger lock_seqid and
so will respond with NFS4ERR_BAD_SEQID.
So clearly it is harmful to allow a false positive, which testing
so_count allows.
The test is nonsense because ... well... it doesn't mean anything.
so_count is the sum of three different counts.
1/ the set of states listed on so_stateids
2/ the set of active vfs locks owned by any of those states
3/ various transient counts such as for conflicting locks.
When it is tested against '2' it is clear that one of these is the
transient reference obtained by find_lockowner_str_locked(). It is not
clear what the other one is expected to be.
In practice, the count is often 2 because there is precisely one state
on so_stateids. If there were more, this would fail.
In my testing I see two circumstances when RELEASE_LOCKOWNER is called.
In one case, CLOSE is called before RELEASE_LOCKOWNER. That results in
all the lock states being removed, and so the lockowner being discarded
(it is removed when there are no more references which usually happens
when the lock state is discarded). When nfsd4_release_lockowner() finds
that the lock owner doesn't exist, it returns success.
The other case shows an so_count of '2' and precisely one state listed
in so_stateid. It appears that the Linux client uses a separate lock
owner for each file resulting in one lock state per lock owner, so this
test on '2' is safe. For another client it might not be safe.
So this patch changes check_for_locks() to use the (newish)
find_any_file_locked() so that it doesn't take a reference on the
nfs4_file and so never calls nfsd_file_put(), and so never sleeps. With
this check is it safe to restore the use of check_for_locks() rather
than testing so_count against the mysterious '2'. |
