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Jeff Layton committed 7fdbaa1b8da
cifs: don't allow cifs_reconnect to exit with NULL socket pointer It's possible for the following set of events to happen: cifsd calls cifs_reconnect which reconnects the socket. A userspace process then calls cifs_negotiate_protocol to handle the NEGOTIATE and gets a reply. But, while processing the reply, cifsd calls cifs_reconnect again. Eventually the GlobalMid_Lock is dropped and the reply from the earlier NEGOTIATE completes and the tcpStatus is set to CifsGood. cifs_reconnect then goes through and closes the socket and sets the pointer to zero, but because the status is now CifsGood, the new socket is not created and cifs_reconnect exits with the socket pointer set to NULL. Fix this by only setting the tcpStatus to CifsGood if the tcpStatus is CifsNeedNegotiate, and by making sure that generic_ip_connect is always called at least once in cifs_reconnect. Note that this is not a perfect fix for this issue. It's still possible that the NEGOTIATE reply is handled after the socket has been closed and reconnected. In that case, the socket state will look correct but it no NEGOTIATE was performed on it be for the wrong socket. In that situation though the server should just shut down the socket on the next attempted send, rather than causing the oops that occurs today. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .38.x: fd88ce9: [CIFS] cifs: clarify the meaning of tcpStatus == CifsGood Reported-and-Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>