On 09/13/2010 11:32 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> cifs_get_smb_ses must be called on a server pointer on which it holds an
> active reference. It first does a search for an existing SMB session. If
> it finds one, it'll put the server reference and then try to ensure that
> the negprot is done, etc.
> 
> If it encounters an error at that point then it'll return an error.
> There's a potential problem here though. When cifs_get_smb_ses returns
> an error, the caller will also put the TCP server reference leading to a
> double-put.
> 
> Fix this by having cifs_get_smb_ses only put the server reference if
> it found an existing session that it could use and isn't returning an
> error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
> ---
>  fs/cifs/connect.c |    6 +++---
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
> index 67dad54..88c84a3 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
> @@ -1706,9 +1706,6 @@ cifs_get_smb_ses(struct TCP_Server_Info *server, struct 
> smb_vol *volume_info)
>       if (ses) {
>               cFYI(1, "Existing smb sess found (status=%d)", ses->status);
>  
> -             /* existing SMB ses has a server reference already */
> -             cifs_put_tcp_session(server);
> -
>               mutex_lock(&ses->session_mutex);
>               rc = cifs_negotiate_protocol(xid, ses);
>               if (rc) {
> @@ -1731,6 +1728,9 @@ cifs_get_smb_ses(struct TCP_Server_Info *server, struct 
> smb_vol *volume_info)
>                       }
>               }
>               mutex_unlock(&ses->session_mutex);
> +
> +             /* existing SMB ses has a server reference already */
> +             cifs_put_tcp_session(server);
>               FreeXid(xid);
>               return ses;
>       }

Looks correct to me.

Reviewed-by: Suresh Jayaraman <[email protected]>
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