6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Wang Zhaolong wangzhaolong@huaweicloud.com
commit e19d8dd694d261ac26adb2a26121a37c107c81ad upstream.
Commit 34331d7beed7 ("smb: client: fix first command failure during re-negotiation") addressed a race condition by updating lstrp before entering negotiate state. However, this approach may have some unintended side effects.
The lstrp field is documented as "when we got last response from this server", and updating it before actually receiving a server response could potentially affect other mechanisms that rely on this timestamp. For example, the SMB echo detection logic also uses lstrp as a reference point. In scenarios with frequent user operations during reconnect states, the repeated calls to cifs_negotiate_protocol() might continuously update lstrp, which could interfere with the echo detection timing.
Additionally, commit 266b5d02e14f ("smb: client: fix race condition in negotiate timeout by using more precise timing") introduced a dedicated neg_start field specifically for tracking negotiate start time. This provides a more precise solution for the original race condition while preserving the intended semantics of lstrp.
Since the race condition is now properly handled by the neg_start mechanism, the lstrp update in cifs_negotiate_protocol() is no longer necessary and can be safely removed.
Fixes: 266b5d02e14f ("smb: client: fix race condition in negotiate timeout by using more precise timing") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) pc@manguebit.org Signed-off-by: Wang Zhaolong wangzhaolong@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Steve French stfrench@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/smb/client/connect.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/smb/client/connect.c +++ b/fs/smb/client/connect.c @@ -4001,7 +4001,6 @@ retry: return 0; }
- server->lstrp = jiffies; server->tcpStatus = CifsInNegotiate; server->neg_start = jiffies; spin_unlock(&server->srv_lock);