6.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Steve French stfrench@microsoft.com
commit 8861fd5180476f45f9e8853db154600469a0284f upstream.
Coverity spotted that the cifs_sync_mid_result function could deadlock
"Thread deadlock (ORDER_REVERSAL) lock_order: Calling spin_lock acquires lock TCP_Server_Info.srv_lock while holding lock TCP_Server_Info.mid_lock"
Addresses-Coverity: 1590401 ("Thread deadlock (ORDER_REVERSAL)") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Shyam Prasad N sprasad@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Steve French stfrench@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/smb/client/transport.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/smb/client/transport.c +++ b/fs/smb/client/transport.c @@ -909,12 +909,15 @@ cifs_sync_mid_result(struct mid_q_entry list_del_init(&mid->qhead); mid->mid_flags |= MID_DELETED; } + spin_unlock(&server->mid_lock); cifs_server_dbg(VFS, "%s: invalid mid state mid=%llu state=%d\n", __func__, mid->mid, mid->mid_state); rc = -EIO; + goto sync_mid_done; } spin_unlock(&server->mid_lock);
+sync_mid_done: release_mid(mid); return rc; }