[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "SUNRPC: Ensure we release the socket write lock if the" has been added to staging queue

[Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    SUNRPC: Ensure we release the socket write lock if the

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Herton

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>From 54b1298470d6b4f2cf4de4a0bf1a7e9ae91e3299 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust at netapp.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 14:30:46 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] SUNRPC: Ensure we release the socket write lock if the
 rpc_task exits early

commit 87ed50036b866db2ec2ba16b2a7aec4a2b0b7c39 upstream.

If the rpc_task exits while holding the socket write lock before it has
allocated an rpc slot, then the usual mechanism for releasing the write
lock in xprt_release() is defeated.

The problem occurs if the call to xprt_lock_write() initially fails, so
that the rpc_task is put on the xprt->sending wait queue. If the task
exits after being assigned the lock by __xprt_lock_write_func, but
before it has retried the call to xprt_lock_and_alloc_slot(), then
it calls xprt_release() while holding the write lock, but will
immediately exit due to the test for task->tk_rqstp != NULL.

Reported-by: Chris Perl <chris.perl at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust at netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
 net/sunrpc/sched.c |    3 +--
 net/sunrpc/xprt.c  |   12 ++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/sched.c b/net/sunrpc/sched.c
index fe2cf2f..85b9235 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/sched.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/sched.c
@@ -953,8 +953,7 @@ static void rpc_async_release(struct work_struct *work)

 static void rpc_release_resources_task(struct rpc_task *task)
 {
-	if (task->tk_rqstp)
-		xprt_release(task);
+	xprt_release(task);
 	if (task->tk_msg.rpc_cred) {
 		put_rpccred(task->tk_msg.rpc_cred);
 		task->tk_msg.rpc_cred = NULL;
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
index 2d5b811..6329ff3 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
@@ -1139,10 +1139,18 @@ static void xprt_request_init(struct rpc_task *task, struct rpc_xprt *xprt)
 void xprt_release(struct rpc_task *task)
 {
 	struct rpc_xprt	*xprt;
-	struct rpc_rqst	*req;
+	struct rpc_rqst	*req = task->tk_rqstp;

-	if (!(req = task->tk_rqstp))
+	if (req == NULL) {
+		if (task->tk_client) {
+			rcu_read_lock();
+			xprt = rcu_dereference(task->tk_client->cl_xprt);
+			if (xprt->snd_task == task)
+				xprt_release_write(xprt, task);
+			rcu_read_unlock();
+		}
 		return;
+	}

 	xprt = req->rq_xprt;
 	if (task->tk_ops->rpc_count_stats != NULL)
--
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