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When allocating and building an afs_server_list struct object from a VLDB
record, we look up each server address to get the server record for it -
but a server may have more than one entry in the record and we discard the
duplicate pointers. Currently, however, when we discard, we only put a
server record, not unuse it - but the lookup got as an active-user count.
The active-user count on an afs_server_list object determines its lifetime
whereas the refcount keeps the memory backing it around. Failing to reduce
the active-user counter prevents the record from being cleaned up and can
lead to multiple copied being seen - and pointing to deleted afs_cell
objects and other such things.
Fix this by switching the incorrect 'put' to an 'unuse' instead.
Without this, occasionally, a dead server record can be seen in
/proc/net/afs/servers and list corruption may be observed:
list_del corruption. prev->next should be ffff888102423e40, but was 0000000000000000. (prev=ffff88810140cd38)
Fixes: 977e5f8ed0 ("afs: Split the usage count on struct afs_server")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250218192250.296870-5-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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