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 v7 04/12] net/rds: make rds_destroy_pending() report a connection's own destroy
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2026 23:14:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260927061448.167862-5-achender@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260927061448.167862-1-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, and the destroy == true
rds_conn_path_drop() that the destroy itself, and IB device removal,
issue and then flush - 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.
One caller escapes both terms. When the core rds module unloads,
rds_conn_exit() runs rds_loop_net_exit() first, and unregistering the
pernet operations invokes rds_loop_exit_net() -> rds_loop_kill_conns()
-> rds_conn_destroy() for the loopback connections of every network
namespace that is still alive: check_net() is true for all of them,
and the loop transport's unloading flag is only set afterwards, by
rds_loop_exit(). For the duration of those destroys the predicate is
false, so 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, and the other requeueing sites can likewise re-arm works that
live in the about-to-be-freed connection.
The predicate is also imprecise even where it is true: 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, and the passive-twin creation
must refuse a parent whose destroy has begun.
The cp_flags bit that once served this purpose, RDS_DESTROY_PENDING
from commit c90ecbfaf50d2 ("rds: Use atomic flag to track connections
being destroyed"), was only ever set on the IB protocol-version path
and lost its last set_bit in commit cdc306a5c9cd3 ("rds: make v3.1 as
compat version"); it never covered the loopback path above, which
commit c809195f5523 ("rds: clean up loopback rds_connections on netns
deletion") added.
Record the destroy on the connection itself, where every caller is
covered: 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.
Fixes: c809195f5523 ("rds: clean up loopback rds_connections on netns deletion")
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 | 16 ++++++++++++++--
3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/rds/connection.c b/net/rds/connection.c
index 95ff50f31d1e..cbc49426ba08 100644
--- a/net/rds/connection.c
+++ b/net/rds/connection.c
@@ -585,6 +585,14 @@ 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..d595fb78c61f 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 +147,18 @@ 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. Two kinds
+ * of site are exempt: the workers' own self-requeues, which the
+ * sync cancel in the destroy path rejects, and the destroy == true
+ * rds_conn_path_drop(), which the destroy itself (and IB device
+ * removal) issues and then flushes.
+ */
+ bool c_destroy_in_prog;
struct rds_connection *c_passive;
struct rds_transport *c_trans;
@@ -994,7 +1005,8 @@ 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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2026-09-27 6:14 [PATCH net-next v7 00/12] net/rds: make connection lifetime reference-counted Allison Henderson
2026-09-27 6:14 ` [PATCH net-next v7 01/12] net/rds: ib: don't enable interrupts in rds_ib_conn_free() Allison Henderson
2026-09-28 6:14 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-27 6:14 ` [PATCH net-next v7 02/12] net/rds: undo conn_alloc() the same way on every __rds_conn_create() exit Allison Henderson
2026-09-28 6:15 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-27 6:14 ` [PATCH net-next v7 03/12] net/rds: guard every work-requeueing site with rds_destroy_pending() Allison Henderson
2026-09-28 6:15 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-01 6:16 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-27 6:14 ` Allison Henderson [this message]
2026-09-28 6:15 ` [PATCH net-next v7 04/12] net/rds: make rds_destroy_pending() report a connection's own destroy sashiko-bot
2026-10-01 6:16 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-27 6:14 ` [PATCH net-next v7 05/12] net/rds: split connection destroy into quiesce and kref-governed free Allison Henderson
2026-09-28 6:15 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-01 6:16 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-27 6:14 ` [PATCH net-next v7 06/12] net/rds: wait for connections to be freed on transport unload Allison Henderson
2026-09-28 6:15 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-01 6:16 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-27 6:14 ` [PATCH net-next v7 07/12] net/rds: unlink transport nodes before a possibly deferred connection free Allison Henderson
2026-09-28 6:15 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-01 6:16 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-27 6:14 ` [PATCH net-next v7 08/12] net/rds: hold a connection reference from struct rds_incoming Allison Henderson
2026-09-28 6:15 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-01 6:16 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-27 6:14 ` [PATCH net-next v7 09/12] net/rds: take cp_lock to purge cp_send_queue in the quiesce Allison Henderson
2026-09-28 6:15 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-01 6:16 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-27 6:14 ` [PATCH net-next v7 10/12] net/rds: hold connection references in lookup, sockets and c_passive Allison Henderson
2026-09-28 6:15 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-01 6:16 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-27 6:14 ` [PATCH net-next v7 11/12] net/rds: pin the connection across RDMA-CM event handling Allison Henderson
2026-09-28 6:15 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-01 6:16 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-27 6:14 ` [PATCH net-next v7 12/12] net/rds: drop rds_conn_count in favor of t_conn_count Allison Henderson
2026-09-28 6:15 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-01 6:16 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-02 19:37 ` [PATCH net-next v7 00/12] net/rds: make connection lifetime reference-counted Jakub Kicinski
2026-10-02 21:26 ` Allison Henderson
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