6.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Chuck Lever [ Upstream commit 2330b788d732f43668b965b3105b37ceb276dfea ] An nfs4_openowner left on nn->close_lru after its final CLOSE keeps its last closed stateid in oo_last_closed_stid, holding only a raw pointer to its nfs4_client. The laundromat reaps timed-out entries, drops nn->client_lock, and calls nfs4_put_stid(), which dereferences the client through cl_lock. Nothing pins the client across that window, so a concurrent force_expire_client() can free it and nfs4_put_stid() reads freed memory. __destroy_client() hits the same race, walking clp->cl_openowners without cl_lock. Pin the client with cl_rpc_users before dropping client_lock, and skip clients already expiring. __destroy_client() then cleans up its own close_lru entries through release_last_closed_stateid(), so teardown no longer races the laundromat. Fixes: 217526e7ecc9 ("nfsd: protect the close_lru list and oo_last_closed_stid with client_lock") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260709-cel-v4-8-1d519d9be0cb@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c @@ -7165,11 +7165,16 @@ nfs4_laundromat(struct nfsd_net *nn) if (!state_expired(<, oo->oo_time)) break; list_del_init(&oo->oo_close_lru); + clp = oo->oo_owner.so_client; + if (is_client_expired(clp)) + continue; stp = oo->oo_last_closed_stid; oo->oo_last_closed_stid = NULL; + atomic_inc(&clp->cl_rpc_users); spin_unlock(&nn->client_lock); nfs4_put_stid(&stp->st_stid); spin_lock(&nn->client_lock); + put_client_no_renew_locked(clp); } spin_unlock(&nn->client_lock);