NFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during blocked-lock reaping

A bare lock owner -- its only remaining reference a blocked lock on
nn->blocked_locks_lru -- holds a raw pointer to its nfs4_client but
no reference keeping the client alive. When the per-net laundromat
reaps such a lock, freeing the nbl drops the owner reference
held through flc_owner, and the final nfs4_put_stateowner()
takes the client's cl_lock. Because the laundromat detaches the
nbl first, __destroy_client() no longer finds it, so a concurrent
force_expire_client() can free the client before nfs4_put_stateowner()
runs, dereferencing cl_lock in freed memory.

Pin the client with cl_rpc_users before dropping
nn->blocked_locks_lock, and skip clients already expiring, whose
blocked locks __destroy_client() frees while holding an owner
reference. Take nn->client_lock outside nn->blocked_locks_lock.
Every other site holds nn->blocked_locks_lock as a leaf, acquiring
no further lock, so placing nn->client_lock outside it cannot form
a lock-order cycle.

Fixes: 7919d0a27f ("nfsd: add a LRU list for blocked locks")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260709-cel-v4-7-1d519d9be0cb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Chuck Lever
2026-08-10 09:54:35 -04:00
parent 3308cf3f11
commit 9026932ac8
+20 -3
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@@ -357,6 +357,16 @@ free_blocked_lock(struct nfsd4_blocked_lock *nbl)
kref_put(&nbl->nbl_kref, free_nbl);
}
/* A blocked lock's flc_owner is its nfs4_lockowner. */
static struct nfs4_client *
nbl_client(struct nfsd4_blocked_lock *nbl)
{
struct nfs4_lockowner *lo;
lo = (struct nfs4_lockowner *)nbl->nbl_lock.c.flc_owner;
return lo->lo_owner.so_client;
}
static void
remove_blocked_locks(struct nfs4_lockowner *lo)
{
@@ -7591,22 +7601,29 @@ nfs4_laundromat(struct nfsd_net *nn)
* indefinitely once the lock does become free.
*/
BUG_ON(!list_empty(&reaplist));
spin_lock(&nn->client_lock);
spin_lock(&nn->blocked_locks_lock);
while (!list_empty(&nn->blocked_locks_lru)) {
nbl = list_first_entry(&nn->blocked_locks_lru,
struct nfsd4_blocked_lock, nbl_lru);
list_for_each_safe(pos, next, &nn->blocked_locks_lru) {
nbl = list_entry(pos, struct nfsd4_blocked_lock, nbl_lru);
if (!state_expired(&lt, nbl->nbl_time))
break;
clp = nbl_client(nbl);
if (is_client_expired(clp))
continue;
atomic_inc(&clp->cl_rpc_users);
list_move(&nbl->nbl_lru, &reaplist);
list_del_init(&nbl->nbl_list);
}
spin_unlock(&nn->blocked_locks_lock);
spin_unlock(&nn->client_lock);
while (!list_empty(&reaplist)) {
nbl = list_first_entry(&reaplist,
struct nfsd4_blocked_lock, nbl_lru);
clp = nbl_client(nbl);
list_del_init(&nbl->nbl_lru);
free_blocked_lock(nbl);
put_client_no_renew(clp);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_NFSD_V4_2_INTER_SSC
/* service the server-to-server copy delayed unmount list */