nfsd: close shrinker/GC/fsnotify vs per-net shutdown race in filecache

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The shrinker, GC worker, and fsnotify/lease callbacks can unhash an
nfsd_file from the rhashtable and then call
nfsd_file_dispose_list_delayed() to move it to the per-net dispose list.
If nfsd_file_cache_shutdown_net() runs concurrently, its rhashtable walk
misses the already-unhashed file, and its drain of the per-net dispose
list can run before the file has been queued.  The file then sits on
the per-net list with no thread to drain it, leaking both the file and
its associated state.

The GC worker and shrinker already hold nfsd_gc_lock while walking the
LRU, but in the original code they release it before calling
nfsd_file_dispose_list_delayed().  The fsnotify/lease path
(nfsd_file_close_inode) has no synchronization at all.

Fix this by:

  1. Widening nfsd_gc_lock in both nfsd_file_gc() and nfsd_file_lru_scan()
     to cover the nfsd_file_dispose_list_delayed() call.

  2. Wrapping nfsd_file_close_inode() in nfsd_gc_lock so that all three
     callers of nfsd_file_dispose_list_delayed() hold the lock.

  3. Adding a spin_lock/unlock(nfsd_gc_lock) barrier in
     nfsd_file_cache_shutdown_net() after the purge, so that any
     in-progress disposal has fully completed before the per-net list
     is drained.

All operations inside the lock are non-sleeping (rhashtable lookups,
atomic bit/refcount ops, list moves, svc_wake_up), so the spinlock is
appropriate.

Fixes: ffb4025961 ("nfsd: Don't leave work of closing files to a work queue")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.15+
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260604-nfsd-testing-v4-1-3aeb1479c5bb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>

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Jeff Layton 2026-06-04 10:31:09 -04:00 • committed by Chuck Lever

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