From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Bjoern Doebel <doebel@amazon.de>,
	Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>,
	Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.15.y] smb: client: avoid leaking refcount in cifs_queue_oplock_break()
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:11:00 -0400
Message-ID: <20260917131100.337293-1-sashal@kernel.org>
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From: Bjoern Doebel <doebel@amazon.de>

[ Upstream commit 9f2e63f1b2d5fc5b5423424902c091123e220e7e ]

cifs_queue_oplock_break() unconditionally takes a reference on the
target file before queueing cifs_oplock_break(). Only that work item
decreases the reference counter again.

If another oplock break arrives while that work is still queued,
queue_work() will return false and not queue this second work item. As a
result, we will never reach the point to drop the file reference again
and are leaking this reference. This can be triggered when interacting
with a slow-responding server.

As a result, later unmount operations for this file system will fail with

  BUG: Dentry ... still in use (1) [unmount of cifs cifs]
  VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of cifs (cifs)
  kernel BUG at fs/super.c:777!

Fix this by only incrementing the reference count if the work has been
queued successfully. Taking it after queue_work() is safe because all
three callers hold tcon->open_file_lock across the call and
_cifsFileInfo_put() decrements under that same lock, so a worker that
starts the handler in the window cannot drop the reference before it has
been taken.

Fixes: b98749cac4a69 ("CIFS: keep FileInfo handle live during oplock break")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Kiro:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Bjoern Doebel <doebel@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
[ Adjusted the patch path from fs/smb/client/misc.c to fs/cifs/misc.c. ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 fs/cifs/misc.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/cifs/misc.c b/fs/cifs/misc.c
index cb7fb2c4ea71f..c7f846e50fc59 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/misc.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/misc.c
@@ -620,10 +620,11 @@ void cifs_queue_oplock_break(struct cifsFileInfo *cfile)
 	 * open_file_lock to enforce the validity of it for the oplock
 	 * break handler. The matching put is done at the end of the
 	 * handler.
+	 *
+	 * Only take a reference if the work is actually queued.
 	 */
-	cifsFileInfo_get(cfile);
-
-	queue_work(cifsoplockd_wq, &cfile->oplock_break);
+	if (queue_work(cifsoplockd_wq, &cfile->oplock_break))
+		cifsFileInfo_get(cfile);
 }
 
 void cifs_done_oplock_break(struct cifsInodeInfo *cinode)
-- 
2.53.0