[PATCH net-next 04/15] afs: Fix the server_list to unuse a displaced server rather than putting it

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Mon Feb 24 15:41:41 PST 2025


When allocating and building an afs_server_list struct object from a VLDB
record, we look up each server address to get the server record for it -
but a server may have more than one entry in the record and we discard the
duplicate pointers.  Currently, however, when we discard, we only put a
server record, not unuse it - but the lookup got as an active-user count.

The active-user count on an afs_server_list object determines its lifetime
whereas the refcount keeps the memory backing it around.  Failing to reduce
the active-user counter prevents the record from being cleaned up and can
lead to multiple copied being seen - and pointing to deleted afs_cell
objects and other such things.

Fix this by switching the incorrect 'put' to an 'unuse' instead.

Without this, occasionally, a dead server record can be seen in
/proc/net/afs/servers and list corruption may be observed:

    list_del corruption. prev->next should be ffff888102423e40, but was 0000000000000000. (prev=ffff88810140cd38)

Fixes: 977e5f8ed0ab ("afs: Split the usage count on struct afs_server")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne at auristor.com>
cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
cc: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>
cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni at redhat.com>
cc: Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs at lists.infradead.org
cc: netdev at vger.kernel.org
---
 fs/afs/server_list.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/afs/server_list.c b/fs/afs/server_list.c
index 7e7e567a7f8a..d20cd902ef94 100644
--- a/fs/afs/server_list.c
+++ b/fs/afs/server_list.c
@@ -97,8 +97,8 @@ struct afs_server_list *afs_alloc_server_list(struct afs_volume *volume,
 				break;
 		if (j < slist->nr_servers) {
 			if (slist->servers[j].server == server) {
-				afs_put_server(volume->cell->net, server,
-					       afs_server_trace_put_slist_isort);
+				afs_unuse_server(volume->cell->net, server,
+						 afs_server_trace_put_slist_isort);
 				continue;
 			}
 




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