[PATCH] smb: client: avoid leaking refcount in cifs_queue_oplock_break()
From: Bjoern Doebel
Date: Thu Sep 03 2026 - 17:30:51 EST
cifs_queue_oplock_break() unconditionally takes a reference on the
target file before queueing cifs_oplock_break(). Only that work item
decreases the reference counter again.
If another oplock break arrives while that work is still queued,
queue_work() will return false and not queue this second work item. As a
result, we will never reach the point to drop the file reference again
and are leaking this reference. This can be triggered when interacting
with a slow-responding server.
As a result, later unmount operations for this file system will fail with
BUG: Dentry ... still in use (1) [unmount of cifs cifs]
VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of cifs (cifs)
kernel BUG at fs/super.c:777!
Fix this by only incrementing the reference count if the work has been
queued successfully. Taking it after queue_work() is safe because all
three callers hold tcon->open_file_lock across the call and
_cifsFileInfo_put() decrements under that same lock, so a worker that
starts the handler in the window cannot drop the reference before it has
been taken.
Fixes: b98749cac4a69 ("CIFS: keep FileInfo handle live during oplock break")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: Kiro:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Bjoern Doebel <doebel@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/smb/client/misc.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/misc.c b/fs/smb/client/misc.c
index 46e1382e8e04b..dc7070d70467f 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/misc.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/misc.c
@@ -378,10 +378,11 @@ void cifs_queue_oplock_break(struct cifsFileInfo *cfile)
* open_file_lock to enforce the validity of it for the oplock
* break handler. The matching put is done at the end of the
* handler.
+ *
+ * Only take a reference if the work is actually queued.
*/
- cifsFileInfo_get(cfile);
-
- queue_work(cifsoplockd_wq, &cfile->oplock_break);
+ if (queue_work(cifsoplockd_wq, &cfile->oplock_break))
+ cifsFileInfo_get(cfile);
}
void cifs_done_oplock_break(struct cifsInodeInfo *cinode)
--
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