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 04/12] net/rds: make rds_destroy_pending() report a connection's own destroy
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:43:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260922164318.447049-5-achender@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260922164318.447049-1-achender@kernel.org>
rds_conn_destroy() cancels the path works and then destroys the
per-path workqueue. However, nothing currently stops the
work-requeueing sites from queueing new work on the connection while
that happens. The existing code would suggest that this protection
is supposed to come from rds_destroy_pending(), since all of those
sites - apart from the workers' own self-requeues, which the sync
cancel in the destroy path already rejects - guard the queueing with
rds_destroy_pending() under rcu_read_lock() (the last stragglers were
converted by the previous patch), and rds_conn_destroy() already issues a
synchronize_rcu() after unhashing the connection. But the predicate
only tests for the two global teardown cases (netns destruction via
check_net(), module unload via ->t_unloading). Because the conn
itself lacks any indication that a destroy is in progress, the
predicate does not cover the destruction of a single connection
outside these two cases.
Today every rds_conn_destroy() does happen on one of those two global
paths - the last single-connection caller, the protocol-version
mismatch in rds_ib_cm_connect_complete(), was turned into a drop by
commit f97d8c7bab78 ("rds: ib: use rds_conn_drop() on protocol
version mismatch") - so the predicate is currently never wrong. It is
also never precise: it answers "is this connection's world going
away", not "is this connection being destroyed", and the following
patches need the second answer. Once the free is deferred to the
last reference, a connection can be handed to rds_conn_destroy() more
than once (the IB unload path re-sweeps its list until every
connection is gone) and must recognise its own destroy in progress;
the passive-twin creation must refuse a parent whose destroy has
begun; and a future single-connection destroy - a hot-unplugged IB
device, or the asynchronous teardown the Oracle UEK kernel has -
would re-open the window below. While a single-connection destroy
runs, a concurrent rds_cong_queue_updates() can
still find the connection on the congestion map's m_conn_list (the
conn is only removed from it after the paths are torn down) and call
queue_delayed_work() on a cp_wq that destroy_workqueue() has already
freed. Additionally, the other requeueing sites can likewise re-arm
works that live in the about-to-be-freed connection unless
rds_destroy_pending() has something to guard it with.
The version-mismatch path used to be covered: commit c90ecbfaf50d2
("rds: Use atomic flag to track connections being destroyed")
introduced the RDS_DESTROY_PENDING cp_flags bit for exactly this, and
after commit ebeeb1ad9b8ad ("rds: tcp: use rds_destroy_pending() to
synchronize netns/module teardown and rds connection/workq management")
it was set right before that rds_conn_destroy() call and
tested via rds_ib_is_unloading(). Commit cdc306a5c9cd3 ("rds: make
v3.1 as compat version") then removed the last set_bit while leaving
the test behind, so the bit has been dead ever since and per-conn
destroy has run unguarded.
Record the destroy on the connection itself: set
conn->c_destroy_in_prog before the unhash + synchronize_rcu() sequence
in rds_conn_destroy() and test it first in rds_destroy_pending(). The
existing rcu_read_lock() around every check-and-queue site pairs with
that synchronize_rcu(): once it returns, every new reader observes the
flag and refuses to queue, and anything queued before it is flushed or
cancelled by the existing teardown. Drop the now-unreferenced
RDS_DESTROY_PENDING bit and its dead test.
In the Oracle UEK kernel the equivalent conn->c_destroy_in_prog flag
is part of the larger connection refcounting rework ("net/rds: Add
krefs to struct rds_connection"), including ("net/rds: Merge uses of
conn->c_destroy_in_prog & RDS_DESTROY_PENDING"). This ports the
missing pieces of the requeue guard, which stand on their own.
Suggested-by: Sharath Srinivasan <sharath.srinivasan@oracle.com>
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>
---
net/rds/connection.c | 8 ++++++++
net/rds/ib.c | 5 +----
net/rds/rds.h | 12 ++++++++++--
3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/rds/connection.c b/net/rds/connection.c
index a96569a3ee9a..242ca0570a47 100644
--- a/net/rds/connection.c
+++ b/net/rds/connection.c
@@ -579,6 +579,14 @@ void rds_conn_destroy(struct rds_connection *conn)
"%pI4\n", conn, &conn->c_laddr,
&conn->c_faddr);
+ /* Make rds_destroy_pending() true for this conn. Together with
+ * the synchronize_rcu() below this stops the work-requeueing
+ * sites (which all test rds_destroy_pending() under
+ * rcu_read_lock()) from queueing new work on the path
+ * workqueues once we start cancelling and destroying them.
+ */
+ WRITE_ONCE(conn->c_destroy_in_prog, true);
+
/* Ensure conn will not be scheduled for reconnect */
spin_lock_irq(&rds_conn_lock);
hlist_del_init_rcu(&conn->c_hash_node);
diff --git a/net/rds/ib.c b/net/rds/ib.c
index 786f39169bc1..9fe3b9951bd3 100644
--- a/net/rds/ib.c
+++ b/net/rds/ib.c
@@ -525,10 +525,7 @@ static void rds_ib_set_unloading(void)
static bool rds_ib_is_unloading(struct rds_connection *conn)
{
- struct rds_conn_path *cp = &conn->c_path[0];
-
- return (test_bit(RDS_DESTROY_PENDING, &cp->cp_flags) ||
- atomic_read(&rds_ib_unloading) != 0);
+ return atomic_read(&rds_ib_unloading) != 0;
}
void rds_ib_exit(void)
diff --git a/net/rds/rds.h b/net/rds/rds.h
index 2db49573dacd..50b08c28ab86 100644
--- a/net/rds/rds.h
+++ b/net/rds/rds.h
@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ enum {
#define RDS_RECONNECT_PENDING 1
#define RDS_IN_XMIT 2
#define RDS_RECV_REFILL 3
-#define RDS_DESTROY_PENDING 4
/* Max number of multipaths per RDS connection. Must be a power of 2 */
#define RDS_MPATH_WORKERS 8
@@ -148,6 +147,14 @@ struct rds_connection {
c_pad_to_32:29;
int c_npaths;
bool c_with_sport_idx;
+ /* Set once, by rds_conn_destroy(), before it cancels the path
+ * works; read through rds_destroy_pending(). A site that arms
+ * a path work must test the predicate and queue the work inside
+ * one rcu_read_lock() section: the synchronize_rcu() that
+ * follows the store is what keeps a queue issued after the
+ * cancellation from landing on a destroyed workqueue.
+ */
+ bool c_destroy_in_prog;
struct rds_connection *c_passive;
struct rds_transport *c_trans;
@@ -994,7 +1001,8 @@ void __rds_put_mr_final(struct kref *kref);
static inline bool rds_destroy_pending(struct rds_connection *conn)
{
- return !check_net(rds_conn_net(conn)) ||
+ return READ_ONCE(conn->c_destroy_in_prog) ||
+ !check_net(rds_conn_net(conn)) ||
(conn->c_trans->t_unloading && conn->c_trans->t_unloading(conn));
}
--
2.25.1
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-22 16:43 [PATCH net-next v6 00/12] net/rds: make connection lifetime reference-counted Allison Henderson
2026-09-22 16:43 ` [PATCH net-next v6 01/12] net/rds: ib: don't enable interrupts in rds_ib_conn_free() Allison Henderson
2026-09-22 16:43 ` [PATCH net-next v6 02/12] net/rds: undo conn_alloc() the same way on every __rds_conn_create() exit Allison Henderson
2026-09-22 16:43 ` [PATCH net-next v6 03/12] net/rds: guard every work-requeueing site with rds_destroy_pending() Allison Henderson
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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
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