Re: [PATCH net-next v6 12/12] net/rds: hold a connection reference from struct rds_incoming

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> From: Sharath Srinivasan <sharath.srinivasan@oracle.com>
> 
> struct rds_incoming->i_conn stores a pointer to the connection a message
> it belongs to, for both received messages and messages the socket sends.
> But without taking a reference, nothing keeps that connection alive.
> Embedded as the messages m_inc, an inc routinely outlives the connection
> it points at, by sitting in the socket's receive queue until the
> application reads it, while the connection is destroyed by device removal,
> netns teardown or module unload - and every dereference of i_conn after
> that point touches freed memory.
> 
> Chengfeng Ye reported one way to reach it, where the socket info
> callbacks walk a receive queue after rmmod freed the connections:
> 
>   BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rds6_inc_info_copy+0x459/0x530 [rds]
> [ ... ]
>  m_inc reference is dropped from a shared rds_message_free() helper
>  that both paths call; rds_recv_incoming() takes the new reference
>  before dropping the old; rewrite commit message]
> Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-opus-5
> Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>

Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues. It looks great!

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