Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] NFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during blocked-lock" failed to apply to 7.2-stable tree
To: cel@kernel.org,jlayton@kernel.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:32:31 +0200
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The patch below does not apply to the 7.2-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-7.2.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 9026932ac8be4d0ae01db47f23619a98cc57b671
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026090331-frostbite-credibly-4ca0@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 7.2.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:


thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 9026932ac8be4d0ae01db47f23619a98cc57b671 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2026 13:40:30 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] 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: 7919d0a27f1e ("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>

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
index 142ba7d80539..4acd02f1642c 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
@@ -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 */