4882a27cec
A cb_interest record is not necessarily attached to the vnode on entry to
afs_validate(), which can cause an oops when we try to bring the vnode's
cb_s_break up to date in the default case (ie. no current callback promise
and the vnode has not been deleted).
Fix this by simply removing the line, as vnode->cb_s_break will be set when
needed by afs_register_server_cb_interest() when we next get a callback
promise from RPC call.
The oops looks something like:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000018
...
RIP: 0010:afs_validate+0x66/0x250 [kafs]
...
Call Trace:
afs_d_revalidate+0x8d/0x340 [kafs]
? __d_lookup+0x61/0x150
lookup_dcache+0x44/0x70
? lookup_dcache+0x44/0x70
__lookup_hash+0x24/0xa0
do_unlinkat+0x11d/0x2c0
__x64_sys_unlink+0x23/0x30
do_syscall_64+0x4d/0xf0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
Fixes: ae3b7361dc0e ("afs: Fix validation/callback interaction")
Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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