[PATCH] smb: client: fix busy dentry warning on unmount after DIO
From: Zizhi Wo
Date: Fri Jul 03 2026 - 02:28:21 EST
From: Zizhi Wo <wozizhi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Commit c68337442f03 ("cifs: Fix busy dentry used after unmounting") fixed
the issue in cifs where deferred close of a file led to a dentry reference
count not being released in umount, by flushing deferredclose_wq in
cifs_kill_sb() to solve it.
However, the cifs DIO path suffers from the same busy-dentry problem caused
by a delayed dentry reference-count release:
[dio] [cifsd] [close + umount]
netfs_unbuffered_write_iter_locked
...
cifs_demultiplex_thread
netfs_unbuffered_write
cifs_issue_write
netfs_wait_for_in_progress_stream [1]
...
netfs_write_subrequest_terminated
netfs_subreq_clear_in_progress
netfs_wake_collector // wake [1]
netfs_put_subrequest
netfs_put_request
queue_work(system_dfl_wq, xxx) [2]
// dio write return cifs_close
_cifsFileInfo_put
// cfile->count 2->1
--cfile->count [3]
// umount
cifs_kill_sb
kill_anon_super
// warning triggered!
shrink_dcache_for_umount [4]
[system_dfl_wq] [5]
netfs_free_request
...
_cifsFileInfo_put
// cfile->count 1->0
--cfile->count
queue_work(fileinfo_put_wq, xxx)
[fileinfo_put_wq] [6]
cifsFileInfo_put_work
cifsFileInfo_put_final
dput
If the umount path is triggered before [5], it results warning:
BUG: Dentry 00000000eab1f070{i=9a917b66ae404fec,n=test} still in use (1)
[unmount of cifs cifs]
The existing per-inode ictx->io_count wait in cifs_evict_inode() does not
help: it lives in the inode eviction path, which runs after
shrink_dcache_for_umount() has already warned about the busy dentries.
Fix it by adding a per-superblock outstanding-rreq counter that is
incremented in cifs_init_request() and decremented in cifs_free_request().
In cifs_kill_sb(), before kill_anon_super(), wait for this counter to reach
0 - which guarantees that all cleanup_work for this sb have run and thus
all relevant cfile puts are queued on fileinfo_put_wq. Then drain
fileinfo_put_wq so the dentry refs are dropped.
This is a targeted wait, not a flush of the system-wide system_dfl_wq.
Fixes: 340cea84f691c ("cifs: open files should not hold ref on superblock")
Signed-off-by: Zizhi Wo <wozizhi@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/smb/client/cifs_fs_sb.h | 1 +
fs/smb/client/cifsfs.c | 11 +++++++++++
fs/smb/client/connect.c | 1 +
fs/smb/client/file.c | 5 +++++
4 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/cifs_fs_sb.h b/fs/smb/client/cifs_fs_sb.h
index 84e7e366b0ff..d6494e1d93cc 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/cifs_fs_sb.h
+++ b/fs/smb/client/cifs_fs_sb.h
@@ -54,10 +54,11 @@ struct cifs_sb_info {
struct tcon_link *master_tlink;
struct nls_table *local_nls;
struct smb3_fs_context *ctx;
atomic_t active;
atomic_t mnt_cifs_flags;
+ atomic_t outstanding_rreq; /* nr of rreqs not yet fully deinitialized */
struct delayed_work prune_tlinks;
struct rcu_head rcu;
/* only used when CIFS_MOUNT_USE_PREFIX_PATH is set */
char *prepath;
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/cifsfs.c b/fs/smb/client/cifsfs.c
index ea4fc0fa68ca..6696893d522f 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/cifsfs.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/cifsfs.c
@@ -309,10 +309,21 @@ static void cifs_kill_sb(struct super_block *sb)
/* Wait for all pending oplock breaks to complete */
flush_workqueue(cifsoplockd_wq);
/* Wait for all opened files to release */
flush_workqueue(deferredclose_wq);
+ /*
+ * Wait for all in-flight netfs I/O requests to finish their
+ * cleanup_work so that any cifsFileInfo final puts they queue
+ * to fileinfo_put_wq have been queued, then drain that
+ * workqueue so the cfile dentry refs are dropped to avoid the
+ * busy dentry warning.
+ */
+ wait_var_event(&cifs_sb->outstanding_rreq,
+ !atomic_read(&cifs_sb->outstanding_rreq));
+ flush_workqueue(fileinfo_put_wq);
+
/* finally release root dentry */
dput(cifs_sb->root);
cifs_sb->root = NULL;
}
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/connect.c b/fs/smb/client/connect.c
index 85aec302c89e..a187398fbabd 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/connect.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/connect.c
@@ -3483,10 +3483,11 @@ int cifs_setup_cifs_sb(struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb)
INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&cifs_sb->prune_tlinks, cifs_prune_tlinks);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cifs_sb->tcon_sb_link);
spin_lock_init(&cifs_sb->tlink_tree_lock);
cifs_sb->tlink_tree = RB_ROOT;
+ atomic_set(&cifs_sb->outstanding_rreq, 0);
cifs_dbg(FYI, "file mode: %04ho dir mode: %04ho\n",
ctx->file_mode, ctx->dir_mode);
/* this is needed for ASCII cp to Unicode converts */
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/file.c b/fs/smb/client/file.c
index 8b25d6c9ec5e..d2116d934466 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/file.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/file.c
@@ -285,10 +285,11 @@ static int cifs_init_request(struct netfs_io_request *rreq, struct file *file)
} else if (rreq->origin != NETFS_WRITEBACK) {
WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
return smb_EIO1(smb_eio_trace_not_netfs_writeback, rreq->origin);
}
+ atomic_inc(&cifs_sb->outstanding_rreq);
return 0;
}
/*
* Completion of a request operation.
@@ -306,13 +307,17 @@ static void cifs_rreq_done(struct netfs_io_request *rreq)
}
static void cifs_free_request(struct netfs_io_request *rreq)
{
struct cifs_io_request *req = container_of(rreq, struct cifs_io_request, rreq);
+ struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb = CIFS_SB(rreq->inode->i_sb);
if (req->cfile)
cifsFileInfo_put(req->cfile);
+
+ if (atomic_dec_and_test(&cifs_sb->outstanding_rreq))
+ wake_up_var(&cifs_sb->outstanding_rreq);
}
static void cifs_free_subrequest(struct netfs_io_subrequest *subreq)
{
struct cifs_io_subrequest *rdata =
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