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From: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
To: "Allison Henderson" <achender@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v4 1/2] net: rds: fix uninitialized trans dereference in CM event handler
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2026 17:56:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261003175622.353F61F0089E@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261003163408.250568-2-achender@kernel.org>

> From: Aohan Mei <henrymei@tencent.com>
> 
> rds_rdma_cm_event_handler_cmn() assigns trans only when the RDMA
> device is an InfiniBand CA (RDMA_NODE_IB_CA).  On any other device
> type, e.g. an iWARP RNIC such as siw, trans stays uninitialized, but
> the event switch dereferences it: unconditionally in the
> RDMA_CM_EVENT_CONNECT_REQUEST case via trans->cm_handle_connect(),
> and (with a connection context) in the ROUTE_RESOLVED and
> ESTABLISHED cases.
> 
> An RDS listener on an iWARP device therefore crashes the kernel as
> soon as a connect request arrives: with CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO
> the wild load becomes a NULL dereference at offset 0xa0
> (&trans->cm_handle_connect) in the iw_cm_wq workqueue.
> 
> [ ... ]
>  not destroy connection ids RDS still tracks; drop a connection whose
>  address resolved to a non-IB device before a route is resolved on it;
>  changelog adjusted]
> Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-fable-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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  reply	other threads:[~2026-10-03 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-03 16:34 [PATCH net v4 0/2] net/rds: RDMA-CM event handler fixes for non-IB devices Allison Henderson
2026-10-03 16:34 ` [PATCH net v4 1/2] net: rds: fix uninitialized trans dereference in CM event handler Allison Henderson
2026-10-03 17:56   ` sashiko-bot [this message]
2026-10-03 16:34 ` [PATCH net v4 2/2] net/rds: don't let the rdma_cm destroy an id RDS still owns on route failure Allison Henderson
2026-10-03 17:56   ` sashiko-bot

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