From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: Yehyeong Lee <yhlee@isslab.korea.ac.kr>
Cc: alibuda@linux.alibaba.com, dust.li@linux.alibaba.com,
sidraya@linux.ibm.com, wenjia@linux.ibm.com, kuba@kernel.org,
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guwen@linux.alibaba.com, guangguan.wang@linux.alibaba.com,
kees@kernel.org, gustavoars@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v5 3/3] net/smc: carry oversized SMC-Rv2 LLC messages in the queue entry
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 13:13:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260805121325.GS51943@horms.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260801094208.1937951-4-yhlee@isslab.korea.ac.kr>
On Sat, Aug 01, 2026 at 06:42:08PM +0900, Yehyeong Lee wrote:
> An LLC message longer than the 44-byte union smc_llc_msg arrives either
> whole in the receive buffer or split into the link group's shared v2
> buffer, and both consumers of the tail rebuild that layout themselves.
> Copy the tail into the queue entry instead, so its length and its lifetime
> are those of the message that arrived, and declare the rkeys that do fit
> inline as a member of the union rather than reaching them through a cast of
> a shorter type.
>
> The bound the previous patch placed on links without a shared v2 receive
> buffer is no longer needed here: the extension is read from the qentry,
> whose length is the length of the message that arrived.
>
> A DELETE_RKEY_V2 is now bounded by what arrived rather than by the buffer
> it landed in: a 44-byte message declaring 255 rkeys processed 255 of them
> before, and processes the 9 that fit now.
>
> Suggested-by: D. Wythe <alibuda@linux.alibaba.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yehyeong Lee <yhlee@isslab.korea.ac.kr>
> ---
> Measured over rxe with KASAN: a DELETE_RKEY_V2 carrying 12 rkeys over a link
> with a shared v2 receive buffer round-trips all 12 values, the last three
> coming from the copied tail; 8, 9 and 10 rkeys and a 44-byte message declaring
> 10 give 8, 9, 10 and 9 processed rkeys respectively. kmemleak reports nothing
> over the link-addition path, and does report the queue entry when the free
> added by patch 1 is removed again.
There is an AI generated review of this patch-set available at
https://netdev-ai.bots.linux.dev/sashiko/#/patchset/20260801094208.1937951-1-yhlee%40isslab.korea.ac.kr
Of that review, I think the following warrants particular consideration.
TL;DR: to ensure complete backports, maybe add this tag to this patch,
as it has been added to patch 2/3.
Fixes: 27ef6a9981fe ("net/smc: support SMC-R V2 for rdma devices with max_recv_sge equals to 1")
The text of the AI-generated review:
Should this patch carry a Fixes: tag and Cc: stable as well? Both
predecessors in the series do, and this is the patch that changes behaviour
in two places.
First, the early return this hunk replaces:
if (!smc_link_shared_v2_rxbuf(link))
return;
On a device with max_recv_sge == 1 that means the peer's rkeys in the
ADD_LINK v2 extension are never installed into lgr->rtokens for the new
link, even though those bytes do arrive on the link. Only the
qentry->body_len bound added here reaches them.
Second, in smc_llc_rmt_delete_rkey() the shared-v2 path was bounded by the
capacity of the per-lgr buffer rather than by what the peer sent:
llcv2 = (struct smc_llc_msg_delete_rkey_v2 *)lgr->wr_rx_buf_v2;
buf_len = SMC_WR_BUF_V2_SIZE;
...
max = min_t(u32, max, (buf_len - rkey_off) / sizeof(llcv2->rkey[0]));
So a 44-byte DELETE_RKEY_V2 declaring num_rkeys = 255 walks rkey[9..254] out
of whatever an earlier oversized peer message left in lgr->wr_rx_buf_v2 and
passes each value to smc_rtoken_delete(), which can clear a valid rtoken of
an unrelated connection in the same link group.
The changelog describes both as consequences rather than as fixes:
The bound the previous patch placed on links without a shared v2
receive buffer is no longer needed here
A DELETE_RKEY_V2 is now bounded by what arrived rather than by the
buffer it landed in: a 44-byte message declaring 255 rkeys processed
255 of them before, and processes the 9 that fit now.
If a stable tree takes the first two patches of the series but not this one,
does it end up with the ADD_LINK v2 extension ignored on max_recv_sge == 1
devices and the stale-rkey deletion still present?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-05 12:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-01 9:42 [PATCH net v5 0/3] net/smc: fix out-of-bounds and use-after-free in SMC-Rv2 LLC processing Yehyeong Lee
2026-08-01 9:42 ` [PATCH net v5 1/3] net/smc: fix use-after-free of the LLC qentry in smc_llc_srv_add_link() Yehyeong Lee
2026-08-05 13:57 ` Breno Leitao
2026-08-01 9:42 ` [PATCH net v5 2/3] net/smc: bound the peer rkey counts in SMC-Rv2 LLC messages Yehyeong Lee
2026-08-03 3:41 ` Yehyeong Lee
2026-08-01 9:42 ` [PATCH net v5 3/3] net/smc: carry oversized SMC-Rv2 LLC messages in the queue entry Yehyeong Lee
2026-08-05 12:13 ` Simon Horman [this message]
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