FAILED: Patch "cifs: Fix locking usage for tcon fields" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree

PATCH Sasha Levin 1 participant 1 message Mar 1

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Sasha Levin

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2026-03-01 01:53 UTC #0 lore raw

The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-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 <[email protected]>.

Thanks,
Sasha

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

From 96c4af418586ee9a6aab61738644366426e05316 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shyam Prasad N <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2026 00:21:13 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] cifs: Fix locking usage for tcon fields

We used to use the cifs_tcp_ses_lock to protect a lot of objects that are not just the server, ses or tcon lists. We later introduced srv_lock, ses_lock and tc_lock to protect fields within the corresponding structs. This was done to provide a more granular protection and avoid unnecessary serialization.

There were still a couple of uses of cifs_tcp_ses_lock to provide tcon fields. In this patch, I've replaced them with tc_lock.

Cc [email protected]

Signed-off-by Shyam Prasad N <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by Steve French <[email protected]>

---
 fs/smb/client/cached_dir.c | 4 ++--
 fs/smb/client/smb2misc.c   | 6 +++---
 fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c    | 8 +++-----
 fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c    | 2 ++
 fs/smb/client/trace.h      | 1 +
 5 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

fs/smb/client/cached_dir.c +2 -2

index df9977030d199..2a6b8ce80be23 100644
@@ -792,11 +792,11 @@ static void cfids_laundromat_worker(struct work_struct *work)
 		cfid->dentry = NULL;
 
 		if (cfid->is_open) {
-			spin_lock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock);
+			spin_lock(&cfid->tcon->tc_lock);
 			++cfid->tcon->tc_count;
 			trace_smb3_tcon_ref(cfid->tcon->debug_id, cfid->tcon->tc_count,
 					    netfs_trace_tcon_ref_get_cached_laundromat);
-			spin_unlock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock);
+			spin_unlock(&cfid->tcon->tc_lock);
 			queue_work(serverclose_wq, &cfid->close_work);
 		} else
 			/*

fs/smb/client/smb2misc.c +3 -3

index f3cb62d914502..0871b9f1f86a6 100644
@@ -820,14 +820,14 @@ smb2_handle_cancelled_close(struct cifs_tcon *tcon, __u64 persistent_fid,
 	int rc;
 
 	cifs_dbg(FYI, "%s: tc_count=%d\n", __func__, tcon->tc_count);
-	spin_lock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock);
+	spin_lock(&tcon->tc_lock);
 	if (tcon->tc_count <= 0) {
 		struct TCP_Server_Info *server = NULL;
 
 		trace_smb3_tcon_ref(tcon->debug_id, tcon->tc_count,
 				    netfs_trace_tcon_ref_see_cancelled_close);
 		WARN_ONCE(tcon->tc_count < 0, "tcon refcount is negative");
-		spin_unlock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock);
+		spin_unlock(&tcon->tc_lock);
 
 		if (tcon->ses) {
 			server = tcon->ses->server;

@@ -841,7 +841,7 @@ smb2_handle_cancelled_close(struct cifs_tcon *tcon, __u64 persistent_fid,
 	tcon->tc_count++;
 	trace_smb3_tcon_ref(tcon->debug_id, tcon->tc_count,
 			    netfs_trace_tcon_ref_get_cancelled_close);
-	spin_unlock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock);
+	spin_unlock(&tcon->tc_lock);
 
 	rc = __smb2_handle_cancelled_cmd(tcon, SMB2_CLOSE_HE, 0,
 					 persistent_fid, volatile_fid);

fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c +3 -5

index f6806946d0eee..653e2f29384d4 100644
@@ -3107,7 +3107,9 @@ smb2_get_dfs_refer(const unsigned int xid, struct cifs_ses *ses,
 						struct cifs_tcon,
 						tcon_list);
 		if (tcon) {
+			spin_lock(&tcon->tc_lock);
 			tcon->tc_count++;
+			spin_unlock(&tcon->tc_lock);
 			trace_smb3_tcon_ref(tcon->debug_id, tcon->tc_count,
 					    netfs_trace_tcon_ref_get_dfs_refer);
 		}

@@ -3176,13 +3178,9 @@ smb2_get_dfs_refer(const unsigned int xid, struct cifs_ses *ses,
  out:
 	if (tcon && !tcon->ipc) {
 		/* ipc tcons are not refcounted */
-		spin_lock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock);
-		tcon->tc_count--;
+		cifs_put_tcon(tcon, netfs_trace_tcon_ref_put_dfs_refer);
 		trace_smb3_tcon_ref(tcon->debug_id, tcon->tc_count,
 				    netfs_trace_tcon_ref_dec_dfs_refer);
-		/* tc_count can never go negative */
-		WARN_ON(tcon->tc_count < 0);
-		spin_unlock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock);
 	}
 	kfree(utf16_path);
 	kfree(dfs_req);

fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c +2 -0

index fa22702a61a6e..a88b21e5b30e2 100644
@@ -4263,7 +4263,9 @@ void smb2_reconnect_server(struct work_struct *work)
 
 		list_for_each_entry(tcon, &ses->tcon_list, tcon_list) {
 			if (tcon->need_reconnect || tcon->need_reopen_files) {
+				spin_lock(&tcon->tc_lock);
 				tcon->tc_count++;
+				spin_unlock(&tcon->tc_lock);
 				trace_smb3_tcon_ref(tcon->debug_id, tcon->tc_count,
 						    netfs_trace_tcon_ref_get_reconnect_server);
 				list_add_tail(&tcon->rlist, &tmp_list);

fs/smb/client/trace.h +1 -0

index a584a77431132..191f02344dcdd 100644
@@ -189,6 +189,7 @@
 	EM(netfs_trace_tcon_ref_put_cancelled_close_fid, "PUT Cn-Fid") \
 	EM(netfs_trace_tcon_ref_put_cancelled_mid,	"PUT Cn-Mid") \
 	EM(netfs_trace_tcon_ref_put_mnt_ctx,		"PUT MntCtx") \
+	EM(netfs_trace_tcon_ref_put_dfs_refer,		"PUT DfsRfr") \
 	EM(netfs_trace_tcon_ref_put_reconnect_server,	"PUT Reconn") \
 	EM(netfs_trace_tcon_ref_put_tlink,		"PUT Tlink ") \
 	EM(netfs_trace_tcon_ref_see_cancelled_close,	"SEE Cn-Cls") \

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