[PATCH] afs: Fix lock recursion

Christian Brauner brauner at kernel.org
Wed Oct 16 07:53:53 PDT 2024


On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 13:54:31 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> afs_wake_up_async_call() can incur lock recursion.  The problem is that it
> is called from AF_RXRPC whilst holding the ->notify_lock, but it tries to
> take a ref on the afs_call struct in order to pass it to a work queue - but
> if the afs_call is already queued, we then have an extraneous ref that must
> be put... calling afs_put_call() may call back down into AF_RXRPC through
> rxrpc_kernel_shutdown_call(), however, which might try taking the
> ->notify_lock again.
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs.fixes branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.fixes branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch.

tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs.fixes

[1/1] afs: Fix lock recursion
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/dabae7218d1c



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