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Date:      Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:05:14 +0000
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   git: 36b155a2b3ba - main - vfs: work around the race between vget() and vnlru
Message-ID:  <6a2e0c5a.27eb4.27ede61b@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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The branch main has been updated by kib:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=36b155a2b3baa747c1968a9094df9fa7fb0d02b3

commit 36b155a2b3baa747c1968a9094df9fa7fb0d02b3
Author:     Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2026-05-28 09:42:38 +0000
Commit:     Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2026-06-14 02:02:38 +0000

    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
---
 sys/kern/vfs_subr.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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);


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