[PATCH] ksmbd: force "fail immediately" flag on fs with its own ->lock

From: Vasily Averin
Date: Fri Dec 17 2021 - 06:24:10 EST


Like nfsd and lockd, ksmbd can cause deadlock if the exported
file system does not support asynchronous processing of blocking locks:
if all ksmbd worker threads handles such requests,
they can never finish and the server will not be able to handle
any other incoming requests.

Any filesystem that leaves ->lock NULL will use posix_lock_file(), which
does the right thing. Simplest is just to assume that any filesystem
that defines its own ->lock is not safe to request a blocking lock from.

To work around the problem we need to drop fl->fl_flag FL_SLEEP before
vfs_lock_file() execution, it forces affected functions to avoid blocking.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ksmbd/smb2pdu.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/ksmbd/smb2pdu.c b/fs/ksmbd/smb2pdu.c
index 121f8e8c70ac..f2225491af02 100644
--- a/fs/ksmbd/smb2pdu.c
+++ b/fs/ksmbd/smb2pdu.c
@@ -6634,6 +6634,12 @@ static int smb2_set_flock_flags(struct file_lock *flock, int flags)
{
int cmd = -EINVAL;

+ if ((flock->fl_file->f_op->lock) &&
+ ((flags == SMB2_LOCKFLAG_SHARED) ||
+ (flags == SMB2_LOCKFLAG_EXCLUSIVE))) {
+ ksmbd_debug(SMB, "force fail immediately request\n");
+ flags |= SMB2_LOCKFLAG_FAIL_IMMEDIATELY;
+ }
/* Checking for wrong flag combination during lock request*/
switch (flags) {
case SMB2_LOCKFLAG_SHARED:
--
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