The patch below does not apply to the 3.18-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, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 06bed7d18c2c07b3e3eeadf4bd357f6e806618cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 15:05:25 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] LOCKD: Fix a race when initialising nlmsvc_timeout This commit fixes a race whereby nlmclnt_init() first starts the lockd daemon, and then calls nlm_bind_host() with the expectation that nlmsvc_timeout has already been initialised. Unfortunately, there is no no synchronisation between lockd() and lockd_up() to guarantee that this is the case. Fix is to move the initialisation of nlmsvc_timeout into lockd_create_svc Fixes: 9a1b6bf818e74 ("LOCKD: Don't call utsname()->nodename...") Cc: Bruce Fields <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] # 3.10.x Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]> diff --git a/fs/lockd/svc.c b/fs/lockd/svc.c index e94c887da2d7..55505cbe11af 100644 --- a/fs/lockd/svc.c +++ b/fs/lockd/svc.c @@ -138,10 +138,6 @@ lockd(void *vrqstp) dprintk("NFS locking service started (ver " LOCKD_VERSION ").\n"); - if (!nlm_timeout) - nlm_timeout = LOCKD_DFLT_TIMEO; - nlmsvc_timeout = nlm_timeout * HZ; - /* * The main request loop. We don't terminate until the last * NFS mount or NFS daemon has gone away. @@ -350,6 +346,10 @@ static struct svc_serv *lockd_create_svc(void) printk(KERN_WARNING "lockd_up: no pid, %d users??\n", nlmsvc_users); + if (!nlm_timeout) + nlm_timeout = LOCKD_DFLT_TIMEO; + nlmsvc_timeout = nlm_timeout * HZ; + serv = svc_create(&nlmsvc_program, LOCKD_BUFSIZE, svc_rpcb_cleanup); if (!serv) { printk(KERN_WARNING "lockd_up: create service failed\n"); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
