SUNRPC: Avoid deep recursion in rpc_release_client
In cases where an rpc client has a parent hierarchy, then
rpc_free_client may end up calling rpc_release_client() on the
parent, thus recursing back into rpc_free_client. If the hierarchy
is deep enough, then we can get into situations where the stack
simply overflows.
The fix is to have rpc_release_client() loop so that it can take
care of the parent rpc client hierarchy without needing to
recurse.
Reported-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Weston Andros Adamson <dros@netapp.com>
Reported-by: Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2C73011F-0939-434C-9E4D-13A1EB1403D7@netapp.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
index dab09da..f09b7db 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
@@ -750,14 +750,16 @@
/*
* Free an RPC client
*/
-static void
+static struct rpc_clnt *
rpc_free_client(struct rpc_clnt *clnt)
{
+ struct rpc_clnt *parent = NULL;
+
dprintk_rcu("RPC: destroying %s client for %s\n",
clnt->cl_program->name,
rcu_dereference(clnt->cl_xprt)->servername);
if (clnt->cl_parent != clnt)
- rpc_release_client(clnt->cl_parent);
+ parent = clnt->cl_parent;
rpc_clnt_remove_pipedir(clnt);
rpc_unregister_client(clnt);
rpc_free_iostats(clnt->cl_metrics);
@@ -766,18 +768,17 @@
rpciod_down();
rpc_free_clid(clnt);
kfree(clnt);
+ return parent;
}
/*
* Free an RPC client
*/
-static void
+static struct rpc_clnt *
rpc_free_auth(struct rpc_clnt *clnt)
{
- if (clnt->cl_auth == NULL) {
- rpc_free_client(clnt);
- return;
- }
+ if (clnt->cl_auth == NULL)
+ return rpc_free_client(clnt);
/*
* Note: RPCSEC_GSS may need to send NULL RPC calls in order to
@@ -788,7 +789,8 @@
rpcauth_release(clnt->cl_auth);
clnt->cl_auth = NULL;
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&clnt->cl_count))
- rpc_free_client(clnt);
+ return rpc_free_client(clnt);
+ return NULL;
}
/*
@@ -799,10 +801,13 @@
{
dprintk("RPC: rpc_release_client(%p)\n", clnt);
- if (list_empty(&clnt->cl_tasks))
- wake_up(&destroy_wait);
- if (atomic_dec_and_test(&clnt->cl_count))
- rpc_free_auth(clnt);
+ do {
+ if (list_empty(&clnt->cl_tasks))
+ wake_up(&destroy_wait);
+ if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&clnt->cl_count))
+ break;
+ clnt = rpc_free_auth(clnt);
+ } while (clnt != NULL);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rpc_release_client);