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David Howells
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rxrpc: Fix potential race in error handling in afs_make_call()
If the rxrpc call set up by afs_make_call() receives an error whilst it is transmitting the request, there's the possibility that it may get to the point the rxrpc call is ended (after the error_kill_call label) just as the call is queued for async processing. This could manifest itself as call->rxcall being seen as NULL in afs_deliver_to_call() when it tries to lock the call. Fix this by splitting rxrpc_kernel_end_call() into a function to shut down an rxrpc call and a function to release the caller's reference and calling the latter only when we get to afs_put_call(). Reported-by: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@auristor.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: kafs-testing+fedora36_64checkkafs-build-306@auristor.com cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com> cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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