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authorKonstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>2026-05-28 09:42:38 +0000
committerKonstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>2026-06-14 02:02:38 +0000
commit36b155a2b3baa747c1968a9094df9fa7fb0d02b3 (patch)
treedf74cf16e5a2778e17b85288d3aba77a2347d7f8
parent3eafe0188410dcccb21c28a4c2e8f19c68861c76 (diff)
vfs: work around the race between vget() and vnlru
Specifically, do not let vtryrecycle() to recycle a used vnode. It is possible for a vnode to be vref-ed or vuse-ed lockless after it is held by vhold_recycle_free(). Then, since vtryrecycle() does not recheck the hold count, we might end up freeing vused vnode. Since vget_finish() increments v_usecount after obtaining the vnode lock, we would observe the hold reference anyway when the parallel vget() is blocked waiting on the vnode lock. PR: 281749 Reported and tested by: Steve Peurifoy <ssw01@mathistry.net>, Vladimir Grebenshchikov <vova@zote.me> Reviewed by: olce Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation MFC after: 1 week Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D57305
-rw-r--r--sys/kern/vfs_subr.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys/kern/vfs_subr.c b/sys/kern/vfs_subr.c
index 65529bc195bb..7b2718269a1f 100644
--- a/sys/kern/vfs_subr.c
+++ b/sys/kern/vfs_subr.c
@@ -1936,9 +1936,14 @@ vtryrecycle(struct vnode *vp, bool isvnlru)
* anyone picked up this vnode from another list. If not, we will
* mark it with DOOMED via vgonel() so that anyone who does find it
* will skip over it.
+ *
+ * We cannot check only for v_usecount > 0 there, since
+ * v_usecount increment is lockless. Instead check for
+ * v_holdcnt > 1, with the side effect that a parallel vhold()
+ * also aborts freeing this vnode.
*/
VI_LOCK(vp);
- if (vp->v_usecount) {
+ if (vp->v_holdcnt > 1) {
VOP_UNLOCK(vp);
vdropl_recycle(vp);
vn_finished_write(vnmp);