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* [PATCH] net/smc: reject CDC messages after connection teardown
@ 2026-10-21 17:12 Weiming Shi
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From: Weiming Shi @ 2026-10-21 17:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: D. Wythe, Dust Li, Sidraya Jayagond, Mahanta Jambigi, Tony Lu,
	Wen Gu, David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski,
	Paolo Abeni, Simon Horman
  Cc: Ursula Braun, Karsten Graul, linux-rdma, linux-s390, netdev,
	linux-kernel, Xiang Mei, Weiming Shi, stable

smc_cdc_rx_handler() drops the link group's connection lock after looking
up a connection. Concurrent close(2) can then set conn->freed and release a
registration-failed receive buffer before the receive handler obtains the
socket lock. The handler subsequently dereferences the released descriptor.

KASAN reports:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in smc_cdc_msg_recv (net/smc/smc_cdc.c:376 net/smc/smc_cdc.c:431)
  Read of size 4 at addr ffff8881064a4720 by task kworker/u48:2/233
  Workqueue: rxe_wq do_work
  Call Trace:
   <IRQ>
   smc_cdc_msg_recv (net/smc/smc_cdc.c:376 net/smc/smc_cdc.c:431)
   smc_cdc_rx_handler (net/smc/smc_cdc.c:503)
   smc_wr_rx_tasklet_fn (net/smc/smc_wr.c:445 net/smc/smc_wr.c:459 net/smc/smc_wr.c:498)
   tasklet_action_common (kernel/softirq.c:961)
   handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:645)
   do_softirq (kernel/softirq.c:546 (discriminator 19) kernel/softirq.c:533 (discriminator 19))
   </IRQ>

  Freed by task 209:
   __kasan_slab_free (mm/kasan/common.c:285)
   kfree (./include/linux/kasan.h:235 mm/slub.c:2748
          mm/slub.c:6508 mm/slub.c:6801)
   smc_conn_free (net/smc/smc_core.c:1244 net/smc/smc_core.c:1283)
   __smc_release (net/smc/af_smc.c:322)
   smc_release (net/smc/af_smc.c:361)
   __sock_release (net/socket.c:735)
   sock_close (net/socket.c:1526 (discriminator 1))
   __fput (fs/file_table.c:512)
   fput_close_sync (fs/file_table.c:617)
   __do_sys_close (fs/open.c:1560)

  The buggy address is located 32 bytes inside of
   freed 128-byte region [ffff8881064a4700, ffff8881064a4780)
  Kernel panic - not syncing: KASAN: panic_on_warn set ...

Both smc_conn_free() and CDC message processing run under the socket lock.
Check conn->freed after acquiring that lock. Discard messages which passed
the lookup before teardown. This keeps the existing lock order and prevents
access to receive buffers released by smc_conn_free().

Fixes: a6920d1d130c ("net/smc: handle unregistered buffers")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
---
 net/smc/smc_cdc.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/smc/smc_cdc.c b/net/smc/smc_cdc.c
index 32d6d03df321..499a2473b79b 100644
--- a/net/smc/smc_cdc.c
+++ b/net/smc/smc_cdc.c
@@ -428,7 +428,8 @@ static void smc_cdc_msg_recv(struct smc_sock *smc, struct smc_cdc_msg *cdc)
 {
 	sock_hold(&smc->sk);
 	bh_lock_sock(&smc->sk);
-	smc_cdc_msg_recv_action(smc, cdc);
+	if (!smc->conn.freed)
+		smc_cdc_msg_recv_action(smc, cdc);
 	bh_unlock_sock(&smc->sk);
 	sock_put(&smc->sk); /* no free sk in softirq-context */
 }
-- 
2.56.0


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