From: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
pabeni@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
horms@kernel.org
Cc: achender@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next v6 10/12] net/rds: pin the connection across RDMA-CM event handling
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 01:54:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260922085410.391323-11-achender@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260922085410.391323-1-achender@kernel.org>
rds_rdma_cm_event_handler_cmn() picks the connection up from
cm_id->context, which carries no reference, and holds c_cm_lock - a
mutex that lives in the connection's path array - across the transport
callbacks. Before this series that was already a use-after-free
whenever a callback destroyed the connection, since rds_conn_destroy()
freed it synchronously and the handler's mutex_unlock() ran on freed
memory; the one such callback, rds_ib_cm_connect_complete() on a
protocol version below 3.1, has meanwhile been switched to
rds_conn_drop() by commit f97d8c7bab78 ("rds: ib: use rds_conn_drop()
on protocol version mismatch"), which also removed the deadlock that
destroy took on c_cm_lock.
Now that a connection is freed by its last reference, the remaining
exposure is a callback that drops the last reference other than the
handler's - which has none - and the reference handed out by
rds_conn_create() to rds_ib_cm_handle_connect() and dropped at its
end. Take a reference for the duration of the handler, and ignore the
event if the connection is already being freed: its cm_id teardown is
what stops event delivery, so an event that still arrives belongs to a
connection whose shutdown has run and whose memory is on its way out.
rds_ib_cm_handle_connect() has the mirror-image hole: a connection
whose destroy has already quiesced it sits in RDS_CONN_DOWN with no
cm_id, which is exactly the state the DOWN -> CONNECTING transition
claims. A connect request arriving then would install a new cm_id and
QP on a connection that is only waiting for its last reference to go
away, and nothing would tear them down again. Re-check
rds_destroy_pending() under c_cm_lock and reject the request instead.
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>
---
net/rds/ib_cm.c | 11 +++++++++--
net/rds/rdma_transport.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/rds/ib_cm.c b/net/rds/ib_cm.c
index 786ddcb45bcb..1b5491598433 100644
--- a/net/rds/ib_cm.c
+++ b/net/rds/ib_cm.c
@@ -874,6 +874,13 @@ int rds_ib_cm_handle_connect(struct rdma_cm_id *cm_id,
* see the comment above rds_queue_reconnect()
*/
mutex_lock(&conn->c_cm_lock);
+ /* A destroy that has already quiesced this conn leaves it in
+ * RDS_CONN_DOWN with no cm_id, exactly what the transition
+ * below would happily claim; nothing would tear the new cm_id
+ * and QP down again before the conn is freed. Reject instead.
+ */
+ if (rds_destroy_pending(conn))
+ goto out;
if (!rds_conn_transition(conn, RDS_CONN_DOWN, RDS_CONN_CONNECTING)) {
if (rds_conn_state(conn) == RDS_CONN_UP) {
rdsdebug("incoming connect while connecting\n");
@@ -928,8 +935,8 @@ int rds_ib_cm_handle_connect(struct rdma_cm_id *cm_id,
mutex_unlock(&conn->c_cm_lock);
/* Drop the reference rds_conn_create() handed us. The
* conn stays reachable through cm_id->context without a
- * reference of its own for now; the CM event handler is
- * given one of its own by a following patch.
+ * reference of its own; rds_rdma_cm_event_handler_cmn()
+ * takes one for the duration of each event it handles.
*/
rds_conn_put(conn);
}
diff --git a/net/rds/rdma_transport.c b/net/rds/rdma_transport.c
index b15cf316b23a..584e9867810f 100644
--- a/net/rds/rdma_transport.c
+++ b/net/rds/rdma_transport.c
@@ -63,6 +63,18 @@ static int rds_rdma_cm_event_handler_cmn(struct rdma_cm_id *cm_id,
if (cm_id->device->node_type == RDMA_NODE_IB_CA)
trans = &rds_ib_transport;
+ /* cm_id->context carries no reference of its own. Pin the
+ * connection for the duration of the handler: what the callbacks
+ * below do may drop the last reference other than ours, and the
+ * mutex released at out: lives in the connection's path array.
+ * A connection already being freed gets no events handled.
+ */
+ if (conn && !rds_conn_get_unless_zero(conn)) {
+ rdsdebug("conn %p id %p is being freed, ignoring event\n",
+ conn, cm_id);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
/* Prevent shutdown from tearing down the connection
* while we're executing. */
if (conn) {
@@ -171,8 +183,10 @@ static int rds_rdma_cm_event_handler_cmn(struct rdma_cm_id *cm_id,
}
out:
- if (conn)
+ if (conn) {
mutex_unlock(&conn->c_cm_lock);
+ rds_conn_put(conn);
+ }
rdsdebug("id %p event %u (%s) handling ret %d\n", cm_id, event->event,
rdma_event_msg(event->event), ret);
--
2.25.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-22 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-22 8:53 [PATCH net-next v6 00/12] net/rds: make connection lifetime reference-counted Allison Henderson
2026-09-22 8:53 ` [PATCH net-next v6 01/12] net/rds: ib: don't enable interrupts in rds_ib_conn_free() Allison Henderson
2026-09-23 8:54 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-22 8:54 ` [PATCH net-next v6 02/12] net/rds: undo conn_alloc() the same way on every __rds_conn_create() exit Allison Henderson
2026-09-23 8:54 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-22 8:54 ` [PATCH net-next v6 03/12] net/rds: guard every work-requeueing site with rds_destroy_pending() Allison Henderson
2026-09-23 8:54 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-22 8:54 ` [PATCH net-next v6 04/12] net/rds: make rds_destroy_pending() report a connection's own destroy Allison Henderson
2026-09-23 8:54 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-26 9:48 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-22 8:54 ` [PATCH net-next v6 05/12] net/rds: split connection destroy into quiesce and kref-governed free Allison Henderson
2026-09-23 8:54 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-26 9:48 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-22 8:54 ` [PATCH net-next v6 06/12] net/rds: wait for connections to be freed on transport unload Allison Henderson
2026-09-23 8:54 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-26 9:48 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-22 8:54 ` [PATCH net-next v6 07/12] net/rds: unlink transport nodes before a possibly deferred connection free Allison Henderson
2026-09-23 8:54 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-26 9:48 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-22 8:54 ` [PATCH net-next v6 08/12] net/rds: hold connection references in lookup, sockets and c_passive Allison Henderson
2026-09-23 8:54 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-26 9:48 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-22 8:54 ` [PATCH net-next v6 09/12] net/rds: take cp_lock to purge cp_send_queue in the quiesce Allison Henderson
2026-09-23 8:54 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-26 9:48 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-22 8:54 ` Allison Henderson [this message]
2026-09-23 8:54 ` [PATCH net-next v6 10/12] net/rds: pin the connection across RDMA-CM event handling sashiko-bot
2026-09-26 9:48 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-22 8:54 ` [PATCH net-next v6 11/12] net/rds: drop rds_conn_count in favor of t_conn_count Allison Henderson
2026-09-23 8:54 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-22 8:54 ` [PATCH net-next v6 12/12] net/rds: hold a connection reference from struct rds_incoming Allison Henderson
2026-09-23 8:54 ` sashiko-bot
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