From: Mahanta Jambigi <mjambigi@linux.ibm.com>
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Mahanta Jambigi <mjambigi@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH net v8] net/smc: fix lgr/lnk lifetime vs diag reader race
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2026 15:12:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261005131241.1575131-1-mjambigi@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
The diag dump walks the socket hash table under a read_lock and dereferences
conn->lgr and conn->lnk. Three paths expose a window where a hashed socket has
freed or partially freed conn/lgr/lnk state.
First, smc_conn_abort() calls smc_conn_free() during early handshake aborts
while the socket is still hashed in SMC_INIT, synchronously freeing the lgr on
the smc_lgr_cleanup_early() path without holding the hash write_lock. A
concurrent diag reader can load a non-NULL conn->lgr and dereference
lgr->is_smcd after the kfree. Guard the conn/lgr/lnk blocks in __smc_diag_dump()
for SMC_INIT and SMC_CLOSED sockets; smcss already suppresses these attributes
for closed/unconnected sockets so there is no observability regression. Use
smp_load_acquire() / smp_store_release() on sk_state to prevent speculative load
reordering on weakly ordered CPUs (e.g. ARM64) during fallback.
Second, in smc_conn_kill() on SMC-D with dmb_nocopy, smcd_buf_detach() NULLs and
frees conn->sndbuf_desc before the socket is unhashed. A concurrent diag reader
entering the CONNINFO block can dereference the freed descriptor. Unhash the
socket at the top of smc_conn_kill(), before smcd_buf_detach().
Third, in the terminal teardown branches of smc_close_active_abort()
(PEERCLOSEWAIT and PROCESSABORT groups) and in smc_close_passive_work(),
smc_conn_free() drops lgr and lnk references while the socket is still hashed.
Unhash immediately before each smc_conn_free() call at those two sites.
Additionally, in __smc_diag_dump(), use cached link->ibname instead of chasing
link->smcibdev->ibdev->name to avoid racing with link clearing during SMC-R link
failover.
Fixes: f16a7dd5cf27 ("smc: netlink interface for SMC sockets")
Fixes: 9dbe086c69b8 ("net/smc: fix invalid link access in dumping SMC-R connections")
Fixes: ae2be35cbed2 ("net/smc: {at|de}tach sndbuf to peer DMB if supported")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Hidayath Khan <hidayath@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Sidraya Jayagond <sidraya@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mahanta Jambigi <mjambigi@linux.ibm.com>
---
Changes in v8:
- smc_diag.c: use smp_load_acquire(&sk->sk_state) to prevent speculative
load reordering on weakly ordered CPUs (such as arm64) during handshake
abort fallback
- af_smc.c: pair with smp_store_release(&sk->sk_state, SMC_ACTIVE) when
transitioning out of SMC_INIT
- smc_diag.c: copy cached link->ibname instead of chasing
link->smcibdev->ibdev->name to prevent NULL pointer dereference / UAF
if __smcr_link_clear() zeroes the link during link failover
Changes in v7:
- no code changes; commit message only
- document the SMC_CLOSED leg of the early-exit guard and the rationale
that smcss already skips CLOSED sockets on the userspace side; add
Fixes: ae2be35cbed2 for the smc_conn_kill() hunk since
smcd_buf_detach() was introduced by that commit
Changes in v6:
- smc_diag.c: inline sk->sk_state != SMC_INIT into the else-if condition
so conn->lgr->is_smcd is never loaded for SMC_INIT sockets; retain the
SMC_INIT || SMC_CLOSED early-exit guard and out: label from v5 to
defensively skip the CONNINFO/LGRINFO/DMBINFO blocks for sockets with
no live connection
- smc_close.c: remove the unconditional unhash from the top of
smc_close_active_abort(); place it scoped immediately before each of
the two smc_conn_free() calls in the PEERCLOSEWAIT and PROCESSABORT
branches, and before smc_conn_free() in smc_close_passive_work();
this avoids prematurely hiding live SMC_ACTIVE/APPCLOSEWAIT sockets
from smcss
- smc_core.c: unhash at the top of smc_conn_kill(), before
smcd_buf_detach(), so the socket is off the hash table before
conn->sndbuf_desc is freed on the dmb_nocopy path
Changes in v5:
- guard conn/lgr/lnk blocks in __smc_diag_dump() with an
(SMC_INIT || SMC_CLOSED) state check placed after the
SMC_DIAG_FALLBACK nla_put; SMC_INIT can coexist with fallback
(smc_sendmsg() MSG_FASTOPEN path), so the guard must not suppress
the fallback reason
Changes in v4:
- dropped smc_conn_unhash() wrapper, conn->unhashed flag, and all
changes to af_smc.c, smc.h, smc_core.c and smc_core.h;
smc_unhash_sk() is already idempotent via sk_hashed(), so direct
calls at the two teardown sites in smc_close.c are sufficient
- dropped the __smc_release() hunk: it needs no change since the
subsequent unhash there is already a safe no-op
- fixed premature-unhash issue present in v3: smc_conn_free() must not
unhash because smc_conn_abort() calls it before
smc_switch_to_fallback() in both smc_listen_decline() and
smc_connect_rdma() error paths; unhashing there would make live
fallback sockets invisible to smcss
- likewise, the ISM/RDMA retry loops (smc_find_ism_v2_device_serv(),
smc_find_rdma_v2_device_serv()) call smc_conn_abort() on a failed
attempt and then smc_conn_create() on the next device; unhashing in
smc_conn_free() would permanently hide the established connection from
smc_diag since smc_conn_create() does not re-hash the socket
Changes in v3:
- redesigned as a single patch; dropped the lgr_lnk_lock spinlock
approach and the 2-patch split
- fix is now at the socket hash layer: introduce smc_conn_unhash() with
a per-connection unhashed flag; smc_conn_free() unhashes before
dropping lgr/lnk refs, so any socket visible to the diag reader under
the hash read_lock has valid conn->lgr and conn->lnk pointers
- __smc_release() updated to call smc_conn_unhash() for non-fallback
sockets so the flag is honoured when smc_conn_free() already ran first
- smc_diag.c needs no changes; the hash read_lock invariant is
sufficient without any per-connection lock in the dump path
- dropped the clcsock/mutex_trylock fix as that will be addressed
separately
Changes in v2:
- this is v2 of the 2-patch series; the earlier submission was
mislabelled [PATCH v3] but was in fact the first version sent to the
list
- split into a 2-patch series; patch 1/2 adds per-connection
lgr_lnk_lock infrastructure to smc_core, patch 2/2 fixes the diag
dump path using it
- dropped lock_sock()/release_sock() from __smc_diag_dump(); v1 held
the socket lock across all lgr/lnk dereferences, requiring the hash
read_lock to be dropped and re-acquired around each socket
- dropped the restart-from-head loop in smc_diag_dump_proto(); the new
design does not drop the hash read_lock mid-walk so the hlist
truncation concern no longer applies
- dropped refcount_inc_not_zero() socket pinning from the dump loop for
the same reason: the hash read_lock is now held for the full walk
- added per-connection lgr_lnk_lock spinlock to struct smc_connection;
conn->lgr and conn->lnk are NULLed under this lock in smc_conn_free()
before borrowed references are released, establishing the invariant: a
non-NULL conn->lgr seen under lgr_lnk_lock guarantees the lgr is alive
- added lgr_lnk_lock to smc_switch_link_and_count() to protect the
conn->lnk pointer swap from concurrent diag readers
- replaced mutex_lock() on clcsock_release_lock in
smc_diag_msg_common_fill() with mutex_trylock(); mutex_lock() was
valid in v1 because the hash spinlock had been dropped, but the new
design holds the hash read_lock throughout so only a non-sleeping
trylock is safe; a failed trylock leaves address fields zeroed, which
is acceptable for a monitoring tool
- all conn->lgr and conn->lnk accesses in __smc_diag_dump() use a
snapshot-then-use pattern: fields are copied into local stack
variables under lgr_lnk_lock and nla_put() is called after releasing
the lock, avoiding any sleeping operation under the spinlock
net/smc/af_smc.c | 8 ++++----
net/smc/smc_close.c | 3 +++
net/smc/smc_core.c | 1 +
net/smc/smc_diag.c | 9 +++++++--
4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/smc/af_smc.c b/net/smc/af_smc.c
index 23d46797b536..3c9b74301d01 100644
--- a/net/smc/af_smc.c
+++ b/net/smc/af_smc.c
@@ -976,7 +976,7 @@ static int smc_connect_fallback(struct smc_sock *smc, int reason_code)
smc_copy_sock_settings_to_clc(smc);
smc->connect_nonblock = 0;
if (smc->sk.sk_state == SMC_INIT)
- smc->sk.sk_state = SMC_ACTIVE;
+ smp_store_release(&smc->sk.sk_state, SMC_ACTIVE);
return 0;
}
@@ -1381,7 +1381,7 @@ int smc_conn_create(struct smc_sock *smc, struct smc_init_info *ini)
smc_copy_sock_settings_to_clc(smc);
smc->connect_nonblock = 0;
if (smc->sk.sk_state == SMC_INIT)
- smc->sk.sk_state = SMC_ACTIVE;
+ smp_store_release(&smc->sk.sk_state, SMC_ACTIVE);
return 0;
connect_abort:
@@ -1484,7 +1484,7 @@ static int smc_connect_ism(struct smc_sock *smc, struct smc_init_info *ini)
smc_copy_sock_settings_to_clc(smc);
smc->connect_nonblock = 0;
if (smc->sk.sk_state == SMC_INIT)
- smc->sk.sk_state = SMC_ACTIVE;
+ smp_store_release(&smc->sk.sk_state, SMC_ACTIVE);
return 0;
connect_abort:
@@ -1951,7 +1951,7 @@ static void smc_listen_out_connected(struct smc_sock *new_smc)
struct sock *newsmcsk = &new_smc->sk;
if (newsmcsk->sk_state == SMC_INIT)
- newsmcsk->sk_state = SMC_ACTIVE;
+ smp_store_release(&newsmcsk->sk_state, SMC_ACTIVE);
smc_listen_out(new_smc);
}
diff --git a/net/smc/smc_close.c b/net/smc/smc_close.c
index bb0313ef5f7c..aa6363abdd74 100644
--- a/net/smc/smc_close.c
+++ b/net/smc/smc_close.c
@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ void smc_close_active_abort(struct smc_sock *smc)
if (sk->sk_state != SMC_PEERABORTWAIT)
break;
sk->sk_state = SMC_CLOSED;
+ sk->sk_prot->unhash(sk);
smc_conn_free(&smc->conn);
release_clcsock = true;
sock_put(sk); /* passive closing */
@@ -165,6 +166,7 @@ void smc_close_active_abort(struct smc_sock *smc)
if (sk->sk_state != SMC_PEERABORTWAIT)
break;
sk->sk_state = SMC_CLOSED;
+ sk->sk_prot->unhash(sk);
smc_conn_free(&smc->conn);
release_clcsock = true;
break;
@@ -433,6 +435,7 @@ static void smc_close_passive_work(struct work_struct *work)
sk->sk_state_change(sk);
if ((sk->sk_state == SMC_CLOSED) &&
(sock_flag(sk, SOCK_DEAD) || !sk->sk_socket)) {
+ sk->sk_prot->unhash(sk);
smc_conn_free(conn);
if (smc->clcsock)
release_clcsock = true;
diff --git a/net/smc/smc_core.c b/net/smc/smc_core.c
index 04aedd957543..d7bd6d7f428b 100644
--- a/net/smc/smc_core.c
+++ b/net/smc/smc_core.c
@@ -1517,6 +1517,7 @@ static void smc_conn_kill(struct smc_connection *conn, bool soft)
{
struct smc_sock *smc = container_of(conn, struct smc_sock, conn);
+ smc->sk.sk_prot->unhash(&smc->sk);
if (conn->lgr->is_smcd && conn->lgr->peer_shutdown)
conn->local_tx_ctrl.conn_state_flags.peer_conn_abort = 1;
else
diff --git a/net/smc/smc_diag.c b/net/smc/smc_diag.c
index bf0beaa23bdb..6ee51088d227 100644
--- a/net/smc/smc_diag.c
+++ b/net/smc/smc_diag.c
@@ -87,10 +87,11 @@ static int __smc_diag_dump(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
r = nlmsg_data(nlh);
smc_diag_msg_common_fill(r, sk);
- r->diag_state = sk->sk_state;
+ r->diag_state = smp_load_acquire(&sk->sk_state);
if (smc->use_fallback)
r->diag_mode = SMC_DIAG_MODE_FALLBACK_TCP;
- else if (smc_conn_lgr_valid(&smc->conn) && smc->conn.lgr->is_smcd)
+ else if (r->diag_state != SMC_INIT &&
+ smc_conn_lgr_valid(&smc->conn) && smc->conn.lgr->is_smcd)
r->diag_mode = SMC_DIAG_MODE_SMCD;
else
r->diag_mode = SMC_DIAG_MODE_SMCR;
@@ -103,6 +104,9 @@ static int __smc_diag_dump(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
if (nla_put(skb, SMC_DIAG_FALLBACK, sizeof(fallback), &fallback) < 0)
goto errout;
+ if (r->diag_state == SMC_INIT || r->diag_state == SMC_CLOSED)
+ goto out;
+
if ((req->diag_ext & (1 << (SMC_DIAG_CONNINFO - 1))) &&
smc->conn.alert_token_local) {
struct smc_connection *conn = &smc->conn;
@@ -154,7 +158,6 @@ static int __smc_diag_dump(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
.lnk[0].link_id = link->link_id,
};
- memcpy(linfo.lnk[0].ibname, link->smcibdev->ibdev->name,
- sizeof(link->smcibdev->ibdev->name));
+ memcpy(linfo.lnk[0].ibname, link->ibname, sizeof(link->ibname));
smc_gid_be16_convert(linfo.lnk[0].gid, link->gid);
smc_gid_be16_convert(linfo.lnk[0].peer_gid, link->peer_gid);
@@ -185,6 +189,7 @@ static int __smc_diag_dump(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
goto errout;
}
+out:
nlmsg_end(skb, nlh);
return 0;
--
2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)
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