linux-kernel - Re: Files leak from nfsd in 4.7.1-rc1 (and more?)

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Date:	Thu, 09 Jun 2016 08:13:18 -0400
From:	Andrew W Elble <aweits@....edu>
To:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>
Cc:	Oleg Drokin <green@...uxhacker.ru>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	"<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Mailing List" 
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Files leak from nfsd in 4.7.1-rc1 (and more?)


> But...suppose we have two racing OPEN calls. They're both in
> nfs4_get_vfs_file. One opens the file and succeeds and the other fails
> and ends up in out_put_access. At that point, you could end up
> clobbering the successful update to st_access_bmap from the other task,
> and we'd end up not putting the file access references in
> release_all_access.


   Pondering further (with an assumption about the workload), isn't this
   path also likely to involve a lease break in progress on that file?

Thanks,

Andy

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Andrew W. Elble
aweits@...cipline.rit.edu
Infrastructure Engineer, Communications Technical Lead
Rochester Institute of Technology
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