This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

afs: Fix abort on signal while waiting for call completion

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: afs-fix-abort-on-signal-while-waiting-for-call-completion.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Mon Dec 18 14:12:34 CET 2017

From: David Howells dhowells@redhat.com Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 16:27:49 +0000 Subject: afs: Fix abort on signal while waiting for call completion

From: David Howells dhowells@redhat.com

[ Upstream commit 954cd6dc02a65065aecb7150962c0870c5b0e322 ]

Fix the way in which a call that's in progress and being waited for is aborted in the case that EINTR is detected. We should be sending RX_USER_ABORT rather than RX_CALL_DEAD as the abort code.

Note that since the only two ways out of the loop are if the call completes or if a signal happens, the kill-the-call clause after the loop has finished can only happen in the case of EINTR. This means that we only have one abort case to deal with, not two, and the "KWC" case can never happen and so can be deleted.

Note further that simply aborting the call isn't necessarily the best thing here since at this point: the request has been entirely sent and it's likely the server will do the operation anyway - whether we abort it or not. In future, we should punt the handling of the remainder of the call off to a background thread.

Reported-by: Marc Dionne marc.c.dionne@auristor.com Signed-off-by: David Howells dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/afs/rxrpc.c | 19 ++++++------------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/afs/rxrpc.c +++ b/fs/afs/rxrpc.c @@ -492,7 +492,6 @@ call_complete: */ static int afs_wait_for_call_to_complete(struct afs_call *call) { - const char *abort_why; int ret;

DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(myself, current); @@ -511,13 +510,8 @@ static int afs_wait_for_call_to_complete continue; }

- abort_why = "KWC"; - ret = call->error; - if (call->state == AFS_CALL_COMPLETE) - break; - abort_why = "KWI"; - ret = -EINTR; - if (signal_pending(current)) + if (call->state == AFS_CALL_COMPLETE || + signal_pending(current)) break; schedule(); } @@ -525,15 +519,14 @@ static int afs_wait_for_call_to_complete remove_wait_queue(&call->waitq, &myself); __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);

- /* kill the call */ + /* Kill off the call if it's still live. */ if (call->state < AFS_CALL_COMPLETE) { - _debug("call incomplete"); + _debug("call interrupted"); rxrpc_kernel_abort_call(afs_socket, call->rxcall, - RX_CALL_DEAD, -ret, abort_why); - } else if (call->error < 0) { - ret = call->error; + RX_USER_ABORT, -EINTR, "KWI"); }

+ ret = call->error; _debug("call complete"); afs_end_call(call); _leave(" = %d", ret);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dhowells@redhat.com are

queue-4.9/afs-flush-outstanding-writes-when-an-fd-is-closed.patch queue-4.9/afs-fix-the-maths-in-afs_fs_store_data.patch queue-4.9/afs-populate-group-id-from-vnode-status.patch queue-4.9/afs-prevent-callback-expiry-timer-overflow.patch queue-4.9/crypto-rsa-fix-buffer-overread-when-stripping-leading-zeroes.patch queue-4.9/afs-adjust-mode-bits-processing.patch queue-4.9/rxrpc-wake-up-the-transmitter-if-rx-window-size-increases-on-the-peer.patch queue-4.9/afs-invalid-op-id-should-abort-with-rxgen_opcode.patch queue-4.9/afs-fix-page-leak-in-afs_write_begin.patch queue-4.9/afs-better-abort-and-net-error-handling.patch queue-4.9/afs-fix-missing-put_page.patch queue-4.9/afs-migrate-vlocation-fields-to-64-bit.patch queue-4.9/rxrpc-ignore-busy-packets-on-old-calls.patch queue-4.9/afs-populate-and-use-client-modification-time.patch queue-4.9/afs-fix-afs_kill_pages.patch queue-4.9/afs-fix-abort-on-signal-while-waiting-for-call-completion.patch