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From: bfields@fieldses.org (J. Bruce Fields)
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@oracle.com>,
	Trond Myklebust <trondmy@hammerspace.com>,
	Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] NFSD: Fix possible sleep during nfsd4_release_lockowner()
Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 16:29:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220523202938.GJ24163@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17007994486027de807d80dfde1a716c3d127de1.camel@kernel.org>

On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 03:36:27PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> The other lockowner _is_ involved. It's the one holding the conflicting
> lock. nfs4_set_lock_denied copies info from the conflicting lockowner
> into the LOCK/LOCKT response. That's safe now because it holds a
> reference to the owner. At one point it wasn't (see commit aef9583b234a4
> "NFSD: Get reference of lockowner when coping file_lock", which fixed
> that).

I doubt that commit fixed the whole problem, for what it's worth.  What
if the client holding the conflicting lock expires before we get to
nfs4_set_lock_denied?

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-23 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-22 15:38 [PATCH RFC] NFSD: Fix possible sleep during nfsd4_release_lockowner() Chuck Lever
2022-05-23 13:40 ` Jeff Layton
2022-05-23 15:00   ` Chuck Lever III
2022-05-23 15:26     ` Jeff Layton
2022-05-23 15:41       ` Chuck Lever III
2022-05-23 16:37         ` Jeff Layton
2022-05-23 17:25           ` Chuck Lever III
2022-05-23 17:38             ` Jeff Layton
2022-05-23 19:35               ` Chuck Lever III
2022-05-23 19:43                 ` Jeff Layton
2022-05-23 20:17                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2022-05-23 20:32                     ` Jeff Layton
2022-05-23 17:43           ` Trond Myklebust
2022-05-23 18:04             ` Jeff Layton
2022-05-23 18:21               ` Trond Myklebust
2022-05-23 18:30                 ` Jeff Layton
2022-05-23 19:13                   ` Chuck Lever III
2022-05-23 19:36                     ` Jeff Layton
2022-05-23 20:29                       ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2022-05-23 21:15                         ` Jeff Layton
2022-05-23 21:28                           ` J. Bruce Fields
2022-05-24  0:07                             ` J. Bruce Fields
2022-05-23 22:18             ` Chuck Lever III

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