From ffc61ccbb96809df8d97ed609ac86b509eaf9056 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sachin Prabhu Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:28:05 +0100 Subject: Initialise mid_q_entry before putting it on the pending queue A user reported a crash in cifs_demultiplex_thread() caused by an incorrectly set mid_q_entry->callback() function. It appears that the callback assignment made in cifs_call_async() was not flushed back to memory suggesting that a memory barrier was required here. Changing the code to make sure that the mid_q_entry structure was completely initialised before it was added to the pending queue fixes the problem. Signed-off-by: Sachin Prabhu Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton Reviewed-by: Shirish Pargaonkar Signed-off-by: Steve French --- fs/cifs/transport.c | 26 ++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs') diff --git a/fs/cifs/transport.c b/fs/cifs/transport.c index 3097ee58fd7d..f25d4ea14be4 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/transport.c +++ b/fs/cifs/transport.c @@ -365,16 +365,14 @@ cifs_setup_async_request(struct TCP_Server_Info *server, struct kvec *iov, if (mid == NULL) return -ENOMEM; - /* put it on the pending_mid_q */ - spin_lock(&GlobalMid_Lock); - list_add_tail(&mid->qhead, &server->pending_mid_q); - spin_unlock(&GlobalMid_Lock); - rc = cifs_sign_smb2(iov, nvec, server, &mid->sequence_number); - if (rc) - delete_mid(mid); + if (rc) { + DeleteMidQEntry(mid); + return rc; + } + *ret_mid = mid; - return rc; + return 0; } /* @@ -407,17 +405,21 @@ cifs_call_async(struct TCP_Server_Info *server, struct kvec *iov, mid->callback_data = cbdata; mid->mid_state = MID_REQUEST_SUBMITTED; + /* put it on the pending_mid_q */ + spin_lock(&GlobalMid_Lock); + list_add_tail(&mid->qhead, &server->pending_mid_q); + spin_unlock(&GlobalMid_Lock); + + cifs_in_send_inc(server); rc = smb_sendv(server, iov, nvec); cifs_in_send_dec(server); cifs_save_when_sent(mid); mutex_unlock(&server->srv_mutex); - if (rc) - goto out_err; + if (rc == 0) + return 0; - return rc; -out_err: delete_mid(mid); add_credits(server, 1); wake_up(&server->request_q); -- cgit v1.2.3