From: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
To: Bjoern Doebel <doebel@amazon.de>, Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org,
Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>,
Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com>,
Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>, Bharath SM <bharathsm@microsoft.com>,
linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@suse.com>,
doebel@amazon.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] smb: client: avoid leaking refcount in cifs_queue_oplock_break()
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:21:25 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b79a2d5372c3b983a57e33d2732fd45b@manguebit.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260903212858.728118-1-doebel@amazon.de>
Bjoern Doebel <doebel@amazon.de> writes:
> cifs_queue_oplock_break() unconditionally takes a reference on the
> target file before queueing cifs_oplock_break(). Only that work item
> decreases the reference counter again.
>
> If another oplock break arrives while that work is still queued,
> queue_work() will return false and not queue this second work item. As a
> result, we will never reach the point to drop the file reference again
> and are leaking this reference. This can be triggered when interacting
> with a slow-responding server.
>
> As a result, later unmount operations for this file system will fail with
>
> BUG: Dentry ... still in use (1) [unmount of cifs cifs]
> VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of cifs (cifs)
> kernel BUG at fs/super.c:777!
>
> Fix this by only incrementing the reference count if the work has been
> queued successfully. Taking it after queue_work() is safe because all
> three callers hold tcon->open_file_lock across the call and
> _cifsFileInfo_put() decrements under that same lock, so a worker that
> starts the handler in the window cannot drop the reference before it has
> been taken.
> ...
Applied.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-05 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-03 21:28 Bjoern Doebel
2026-09-04 2:26 ` Namjae Jeon
2026-09-05 23:21 ` Paulo Alcantara [this message]
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