[PATCH rdma-next v3 1/5] RDMA/mlx5: Fix UAF in SRQ destroy due to race with create

Edward Srouji
2026-04-27T11:03:21Z

A race condition exists between mlx5_cmd_destroy_srq() and
mlx5_cmd_create_srq() that can lead to a use-after-free (UAF) [1].

After destroy_srq_split() releases the SRQ to firmware, the SRQN can be
immediately reallocated for a new SRQ being created concurrently. If the
create path stores the new SRQ in the xarray before the destroy path
erases it, the destroy will incorrectly delete the new SRQ's entry.
Later accesses then hit freed memory.

Fix by replacing the unconditional xa_erase_irq() with xa_cmpxchg_irq()
that only erases the entry if it hasn't already been replaced (still
contains XA_ZERO_ENTRY), preserving any newly created SRQ.

[1] RIP: 0010:mlx5_cmd_destroy_srq+0xd8/0x110 [mlx5_ib]
Code: 89 e1 ba 06 04 00 00 4c 89 f6 48 89 ef e8 80 19 70 e1 c6 83 a0 0f 00 00 00 fb 5b 44 89 e8 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e c3 cc cc cc cc <0f> 0b 48 89 c2 83 e2 03 48 83 fa 02 75 08 48 3d 05 c0 ff ff 77 08
RSP: 0018:ff110001037b7d08 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ff1100010bb9c000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ff110001037b7c90
RBP: ff1100010bb9cfa0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ff110001037b7da0 R11: ff11000104f29580 R12: ff1100010e2ac090
R13: 000000000000000d R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ff11000105336300
FS: 00007fa24787c740(0000) GS:ff1100046eb8d000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fa247984e90 CR3: 0000000109d59005 CR4: 0000000000373eb0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
mlx5_ib_destroy_srq+0x25/0xa0 [mlx5_ib]
ib_destroy_srq_user+0x21/0x90 [ib_core]
uverbs_free_srq+0x1b/0x50 [ib_uverbs]
destroy_hw_idr_uobject+0x1e/0x50 [ib_uverbs]
uverbs_destroy_uobject+0x35/0x180 [ib_uverbs]
__uverbs_cleanup_ufile+0xdd/0x140 [ib_uverbs]
uverbs_destroy_ufile_hw+0x38/0xf0 [ib_uverbs]
ib_uverbs_close+0x17/0xa0 [ib_uverbs]
__fput+0xe0/0x2a0
__x64_sys_close+0x3a/0x80
do_syscall_64+0x55/0xac0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
RIP: 0033:0x7fa247984ea4
Code: 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 80 3d a5 51 0e 00 00 74 13 b8 03 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 3c c3 0f 1f 00 55 48 89 e5 48 83 ec 10 89 7d
RSP: 002b:00007ffecfa79498 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000003
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000200000000080 RCX: 00007fa247984ea4
RDX: 0000000000000040 RSI: 0000200000000200 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007ffecfa794e0 R08: 00007ffecfa794e0 R09: 00007ffecfa794e0
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000200000000000 R15: 0000200000000009
</TASK>
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Fixes: fd89099d635e ("RDMA/mlx5: Issue FW command to destroy SRQ on reentry")
Signed-off-by: Edward Srouji <edwards@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Guralnik <michaelgur@nvidia.com>
---
drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/srq_cmd.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/srq_cmd.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/srq_cmd.c
index 8b338539659933aef94a3e2c056e9400c3fb9bb0..c1a088120915c5741f37ed44fd2e8139bcb6802e 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/srq_cmd.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/srq_cmd.c
@@ -683,7 +683,14 @@ int mlx5_cmd_destroy_srq(struct mlx5_ib_dev *dev, struct mlx5_core_srq *srq)
xa_cmpxchg_irq(&table->array, srq->srqn, XA_ZERO_ENTRY, srq, 0);
return err;
}
- xa_erase_irq(&table->array, srq->srqn);
+
+ /*
+ * A race can occur where a concurrent create gets the same srqn
+ * (after hardware released it) and overwrites XA_ZERO_ENTRY with
+ * its new SRQ before we reach here. In that case, we must not erase
+ * the entry as it now belongs to the new SRQ.
+ */
+ xa_cmpxchg_irq(&table->array, srq->srqn, XA_ZERO_ENTRY, NULL, 0);

mlx5_core_res_put(&srq->common);
wait_for_completion(&srq->common.free);

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