Re: [PATCH 0/3] nfsd: plug some filecache refcount leaks

From: Chuck Lever
Date: Wed Jul 10 2024 - 10:36:27 EST


On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 09:05:30AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Youzhong Yang sent an email to the list (along with some draft patches)
> that indicated some nfsd_file refcount leaks. I went crawling over the
> filecache code (again) and found a couple of places where we didn't put
> references when we should. I'm not sure if it'll fix the problem they
> reported, but they are bugs.
>
> Plus, let's start counting nfsd_file allocations. The last patch adds
> support for this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Jeff Layton (3):
> nfsd: fix refcount leak when failing to hash nfsd_file
> nfsd: fix refcount leak when file is unhashed after being found
> nfsd: count nfsd_file allocations
>
> fs/nfsd/filecache.c | 14 +++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> ---
> base-commit: 24decb225ed20a5ba46a79f4609e109cb0e4a359
> change-id: 20240710-nfsd-next-01e2afdebb31
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
>

I've browsed these, they seem straightforward.

Since this is the week before a merge window, I would like to save
these and Youzhong's patch for v6.12. The Fixes: tags will get them
pulled back into the stable kernels once they are merged.

'Salright?

--
Chuck Lever