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authorFedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@ispras.ru>2026-02-14 18:45:14 +0300
committerSteve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>2026-02-14 19:26:26 -0600
commita09dc10d1353f0e92c21eae2a79af1c2b1ddcde8 (patch)
tree3dd17cfe6f3c26db1609abfceddae36990a01024 /fs
parent1aade89ecca465be1d08ea3fb55832254117932f (diff)
ksmbd: call ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_end_removing() on some error paths
There are two places where ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_end_removing() needs to be called in order to balance what the corresponding successful call to ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_start_removing() has done, i.e. drop inode locks and put the taken references. Otherwise there might be potential deadlocks and unbalanced locks which are caught like: BUG: workqueue leaked lock or atomic: kworker/5:21/0x00000000/7596 last function: handle_ksmbd_work 2 locks held by kworker/5:21/7596: #0: ffff8881051ae448 (sb_writers#3){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_locked+0x142/0x660 #1: ffff888130e966c0 (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#3/1){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_locked+0x17d/0x660 CPU: 5 PID: 7596 Comm: kworker/5:21 Not tainted 6.1.162-00456-gc29b353f383b #138 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-debian-1.17.0-1 04/01/2014 Workqueue: ksmbd-io handle_ksmbd_work Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x5b process_one_work.cold+0x57/0x5c worker_thread+0x82/0x600 kthread+0x153/0x190 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 </TASK> Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org). Fixes: d5fc1400a34b ("smb/server: avoid deadlock when linking with ReplaceIfExists") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@ispras.ru> Acked-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c b/fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c
index cbb31efdbaa2..2782eea214d0 100644
--- a/fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c
+++ b/fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c
@@ -6115,14 +6115,14 @@ static int smb2_create_link(struct ksmbd_work *work,
rc = -EINVAL;
ksmbd_debug(SMB, "cannot delete %s\n",
link_name);
- goto out;
}
} else {
rc = -EEXIST;
ksmbd_debug(SMB, "link already exists\n");
- goto out;
}
ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_end_removing(&path);
+ if (rc)
+ goto out;
}
rc = ksmbd_vfs_link(work, target_name, link_name);
if (rc)