[PATCH 6.18 201/227] rxrpc: Fix data-race warning and potential load/store tearing

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-01-28T16:01:27Z

From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

commit 5d5fe8bcd331f1e34e0943ec7c18432edfcf0e8b upstream.

Fix the following:

BUG: KCSAN: data-race in rxrpc_peer_keepalive_worker / rxrpc_send_data_packet

which is reporting an issue with the reads and writes to ->last_tx_at in:

conn->peer->last_tx_at = ktime_get_seconds();

and:

keepalive_at = peer->last_tx_at + RXRPC_KEEPALIVE_TIME;

The lockless accesses to these to values aren't actually a problem as the
read only needs an approximate time of last transmission for the purposes
of deciding whether or not the transmission of a keepalive packet is
warranted yet.

Also, as ->last_tx_at is a 64-bit value, tearing can occur on a 32-bit
arch.

Fix both of these by switching to an unsigned int for ->last_tx_at and only
storing the LSW of the time64_t. It can then be reconstructed at need
provided no more than 68 years has elapsed since the last transmission.

Fixes: ace45bec6d77 ("rxrpc: Fix firewall route keepalive")
Reported-by: syzbot+6182afad5045e6703b3d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/695e7cfb.050a0220.1c677c.036b.GAE@google.com/
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1107124.1768903985@warthog.procyon.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h | 9 ++++++++-
net/rxrpc/conn_event.c | 2 +-
net/rxrpc/output.c | 14 +++++++-------
net/rxrpc/peer_event.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
net/rxrpc/proc.c | 4 ++--
net/rxrpc/rxgk.c | 2 +-
net/rxrpc/rxkad.c | 2 +-
7 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

--- a/net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h
+++ b/net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ struct rxrpc_peer {
struct rb_root service_conns; /* Service connections */
struct list_head keepalive_link; /* Link in net->peer_keepalive[] */
unsigned long app_data; /* Application data (e.g. afs_server) */
- time64_t last_tx_at; /* Last time packet sent here */
+ unsigned int last_tx_at; /* Last time packet sent here (time64_t LSW) */
seqlock_t service_conn_lock;
spinlock_t lock; /* access lock */
int debug_id; /* debug ID for printks */
@@ -1379,6 +1379,13 @@ void rxrpc_peer_keepalive_worker(struct
void rxrpc_input_probe_for_pmtud(struct rxrpc_connection *conn, rxrpc_serial_t acked_serial,
bool sendmsg_fail);

+/* Update the last transmission time on a peer for keepalive purposes. */
+static inline void rxrpc_peer_mark_tx(struct rxrpc_peer *peer)
+{
+ /* To avoid tearing on 32-bit systems, we only keep the LSW. */
+ WRITE_ONCE(peer->last_tx_at, ktime_get_seconds());
+}
+
/*
* peer_object.c
*/
--- a/net/rxrpc/conn_event.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/conn_event.c
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ void rxrpc_conn_retransmit_call(struct r
}

ret = kernel_sendmsg(conn->local->socket, &msg, iov, ioc, len);
- conn->peer->last_tx_at = ktime_get_seconds();
+ rxrpc_peer_mark_tx(conn->peer);
if (ret < 0)
trace_rxrpc_tx_fail(chan->call_debug_id, serial, ret,
rxrpc_tx_point_call_final_resend);
--- a/net/rxrpc/output.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/output.c
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ static void rxrpc_send_ack_packet(struct
rxrpc_local_dont_fragment(conn->local, why == rxrpc_propose_ack_ping_for_mtu_probe);

ret = do_udp_sendmsg(conn->local->socket, &msg, len);
- call->peer->last_tx_at = ktime_get_seconds();
+ rxrpc_peer_mark_tx(call->peer);
if (ret < 0) {
trace_rxrpc_tx_fail(call->debug_id, serial, ret,
rxrpc_tx_point_call_ack);
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ int rxrpc_send_abort_packet(struct rxrpc

iov_iter_kvec(&msg.msg_iter, WRITE, iov, 1, sizeof(pkt));
ret = do_udp_sendmsg(conn->local->socket, &msg, sizeof(pkt));
- conn->peer->last_tx_at = ktime_get_seconds();
+ rxrpc_peer_mark_tx(conn->peer);
if (ret < 0)
trace_rxrpc_tx_fail(call->debug_id, serial, ret,
rxrpc_tx_point_call_abort);
@@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ void rxrpc_send_data_packet(struct rxrpc
ret = 0;
trace_rxrpc_tx_data(call, txb->seq, txb->serial, txb->flags,
rxrpc_txdata_inject_loss);
- conn->peer->last_tx_at = ktime_get_seconds();
+ rxrpc_peer_mark_tx(conn->peer);
goto done;
}
}
@@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ void rxrpc_send_data_packet(struct rxrpc
*/
rxrpc_inc_stat(call->rxnet, stat_tx_data_send);
ret = do_udp_sendmsg(conn->local->socket, &msg, len);
- conn->peer->last_tx_at = ktime_get_seconds();
+ rxrpc_peer_mark_tx(conn->peer);

if (ret == -EMSGSIZE) {
rxrpc_inc_stat(call->rxnet, stat_tx_data_send_msgsize);
@@ -797,7 +797,7 @@ void rxrpc_send_conn_abort(struct rxrpc_

trace_rxrpc_tx_packet(conn->debug_id, &whdr, rxrpc_tx_point_conn_abort);

- conn->peer->last_tx_at = ktime_get_seconds();
+ rxrpc_peer_mark_tx(conn->peer);
}

/*
@@ -917,7 +917,7 @@ void rxrpc_send_keepalive(struct rxrpc_p
trace_rxrpc_tx_packet(peer->debug_id, &whdr,
rxrpc_tx_point_version_keepalive);

- peer->last_tx_at = ktime_get_seconds();
+ rxrpc_peer_mark_tx(peer);
_leave("");
}

@@ -973,7 +973,7 @@ void rxrpc_send_response(struct rxrpc_co
if (ret < 0)
goto fail;

- conn->peer->last_tx_at = ktime_get_seconds();
+ rxrpc_peer_mark_tx(conn->peer);
return;

fail:
--- a/net/rxrpc/peer_event.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/peer_event.c
@@ -238,6 +238,21 @@ static void rxrpc_distribute_error(struc
}

/*
+ * Reconstruct the last transmission time. The difference calculated should be
+ * valid provided no more than ~68 years elapsed since the last transmission.
+ */
+static time64_t rxrpc_peer_get_tx_mark(const struct rxrpc_peer *peer, time64_t base)
+{
+ s32 last_tx_at = READ_ONCE(peer->last_tx_at);
+ s32 base_lsw = base;
+ s32 diff = last_tx_at - base_lsw;
+
+ diff = clamp(diff, -RXRPC_KEEPALIVE_TIME, RXRPC_KEEPALIVE_TIME);
+
+ return diff + base;
+}
+
+/*
* Perform keep-alive pings.
*/
static void rxrpc_peer_keepalive_dispatch(struct rxrpc_net *rxnet,
@@ -265,7 +280,7 @@ static void rxrpc_peer_keepalive_dispatc
spin_unlock_bh(&rxnet->peer_hash_lock);

if (use) {
- keepalive_at = peer->last_tx_at + RXRPC_KEEPALIVE_TIME;
+ keepalive_at = rxrpc_peer_get_tx_mark(peer, base) + RXRPC_KEEPALIVE_TIME;
slot = keepalive_at - base;
_debug("%02x peer %u t=%d {%pISp}",
cursor, peer->debug_id, slot, &peer->srx.transport);
--- a/net/rxrpc/proc.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/proc.c
@@ -296,13 +296,13 @@ static int rxrpc_peer_seq_show(struct se

now = ktime_get_seconds();
seq_printf(seq,
- "UDP %-47.47s %-47.47s %3u %4u %5u %6llus %8d %8d\n",
+ "UDP %-47.47s %-47.47s %3u %4u %5u %6ds %8d %8d\n",
lbuff,
rbuff,
refcount_read(&peer->ref),
peer->cong_ssthresh,
peer->max_data,
- now - peer->last_tx_at,
+ (s32)now - (s32)READ_ONCE(peer->last_tx_at),
READ_ONCE(peer->recent_srtt_us),
READ_ONCE(peer->recent_rto_us));

--- a/net/rxrpc/rxgk.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/rxgk.c
@@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ static int rxgk_issue_challenge(struct r

ret = do_udp_sendmsg(conn->local->socket, &msg, len);
if (ret > 0)
- conn->peer->last_tx_at = ktime_get_seconds();
+ rxrpc_peer_mark_tx(conn->peer);
__free_page(page);

if (ret < 0) {
--- a/net/rxrpc/rxkad.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/rxkad.c
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ static int rxkad_issue_challenge(struct
return -EAGAIN;
}

- conn->peer->last_tx_at = ktime_get_seconds();
+ rxrpc_peer_mark_tx(conn->peer);
trace_rxrpc_tx_packet(conn->debug_id, &whdr,
rxrpc_tx_point_rxkad_challenge);
_leave(" = 0");