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[PATCH 6.18 251/312] nfsd: fix nfsd_file reference leak in nfsd4_add_rdaccess_to_wrdeleg()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2026-01-06 17:59:55
Also in: linux-patches

6.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Chuck Lever <redacted>

commit 8072e34e1387d03102b788677d491e2bcceef6f5 upstream.

nfsd4_add_rdaccess_to_wrdeleg() unconditionally overwrites
fp->fi_fds[O_RDONLY] with a newly acquired nfsd_file. However, if
the client already has a SHARE_ACCESS_READ open from a previous OPEN
operation, this action overwrites the existing pointer without
releasing its reference, orphaning the previous reference.

Additionally, the function originally stored the same nfsd_file
pointer in both fp->fi_fds[O_RDONLY] and fp->fi_rdeleg_file with
only a single reference. When put_deleg_file() runs, it clears
fi_rdeleg_file and calls nfs4_file_put_access() to release the file.

However, nfs4_file_put_access() only releases fi_fds[O_RDONLY] when
the fi_access[O_RDONLY] counter drops to zero. If another READ open
exists on the file, the counter remains elevated and the nfsd_file
reference from the delegation is never released. This potentially
causes open conflicts on that file.

Then, on server shutdown, these leaks cause __nfsd_file_cache_purge()
to encounter files with an elevated reference count that cannot be
cleaned up, ultimately triggering a BUG() in kmem_cache_destroy()
because there are still nfsd_file objects allocated in that cache.

Fixes: e7a8ebc305f2 ("NFSD: Offer write delegation for OPEN with OPEN4_SHARE_ACCESS_WRITE")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c |   14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
@@ -1218,8 +1218,10 @@ static void put_deleg_file(struct nfs4_f
 
 	if (nf)
 		nfsd_file_put(nf);
-	if (rnf)
+	if (rnf) {
+		nfsd_file_put(rnf);
 		nfs4_file_put_access(fp, NFS4_SHARE_ACCESS_READ);
+	}
 }
 
 static void nfsd4_finalize_deleg_timestamps(struct nfs4_delegation *dp, struct file *f)
@@ -6253,10 +6255,14 @@ nfsd4_add_rdaccess_to_wrdeleg(struct svc
 		fp = stp->st_stid.sc_file;
 		spin_lock(&fp->fi_lock);
 		__nfs4_file_get_access(fp, NFS4_SHARE_ACCESS_READ);
-		fp = stp->st_stid.sc_file;
-		fp->fi_fds[O_RDONLY] = nf;
-		fp->fi_rdeleg_file = nf;
+		if (!fp->fi_fds[O_RDONLY]) {
+			fp->fi_fds[O_RDONLY] = nf;
+			nf = NULL;
+		}
+		fp->fi_rdeleg_file = nfsd_file_get(fp->fi_fds[O_RDONLY]);
 		spin_unlock(&fp->fi_lock);
+		if (nf)
+			nfsd_file_put(nf);
 	}
 	return true;
 }

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