Patch "nfs: fix potential credential leak in ff_layout_update_mirror_cred" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

nfs: fix potential credential leak in ff_layout_update_mirror_cred

to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
nfs-fix-potential-credential-leak-in-ff_layout_update_mirror_cred.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 12:10:23 -0400
Subject: nfs: fix potential credential leak in ff_layout_update_mirror_cred

From: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>

commit a24221dca1868101c9b4b5adde4a6a5b1a3a64a7 upstream.

If we have two tasks racing to update a mirror's credentials, then they can end up leaking one (or more) sets of credentials. The first task will set mirror->cred and then the second task will just overwrite it.

Use a cmpxchg to ensure that the creds are only set once. If we get to the point where we would set mirror->cred and find that they're already set, then we just release the creds that were just found.

---
 fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/flexfilelayoutdev.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -324,7 +324,8 @@ static int ff_layout_update_mirror_cred(
 				__func__, PTR_ERR(cred));
 			return PTR_ERR(cred);
 		} else {
-			mirror->cred = cred;
+			if (cmpxchg(&mirror->cred, NULL, cred))
+				put_rpccred(cred);
 		}
 	}
 	return 0;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.1/nfs-increase-size-of-exchange_id-name-string-buffer.patch queue-4.1/nfs-always-update-creds-in-mirror-even-when-we-have-an-already-connected-ds.patch queue-4.1/nfs-fix-potential-credential-leak-in-ff_layout_update_mirror_cred.patch