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, jhubbard@nvidia.com, leon@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next] net/rds: clear i_rx_lat_trace in rds_inc_path_init()
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2026 22:56:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260810055631.299558-1-achender@kernel.org> (raw)
The commit that introduced the receive-path latency trace added the
clearing of inc->i_rx_lat_trace[] to rds_inc_init() only;
rds_inc_path_init() never got it.
That asymmetry matters for the one caller that reuses memory:
rds_tcp_data_recv() carves its rds_tcp_incoming out of a kmem_cache
with no zeroing and no constructor, so after rds_inc_path_init() the
array still holds the timestamps of whatever message previously
occupied that slab object. No stale value is user-visible today -
every message that reaches the socket happens to overwrite all four
slots (RX_HDR at allocation, RX_START when the header completes,
RX_END at delivery, RX_CMSG at recvmsg time) before
RDS_CMSG_RXPATH_LATENCY reads them back as deltas - but that is a
property of the current writers, not of the init contract, and a
future trace point or an early-exit path would expose another
message's timestamps to userspace.
Clear the array in rds_inc_path_init() too, so both init helpers
leave the inc fully initialized. memset is the form the clearing
already takes on the rds_inc_init() side since commit 1635bb548f84
("net: rds: use memset to optimize the recv"). Hardening only; no
user-visible bug in the current code.
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>
---
net/rds/recv.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/rds/recv.c b/net/rds/recv.c
index f1513dfb2716..6204e577a90a 100644
--- a/net/rds/recv.c
+++ b/net/rds/recv.c
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ void rds_inc_path_init(struct rds_incoming *inc, struct rds_conn_path *cp,
inc->i_saddr = *saddr;
inc->i_usercopy.rdma_cookie = 0;
inc->i_usercopy.rx_tstamp = ktime_set(0, 0);
+
+ memset(inc->i_rx_lat_trace, 0, sizeof(inc->i_rx_lat_trace));
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rds_inc_path_init);
base-commit: 4fa4977a0d900f936bcae5cd2c510be5554e8dd6
prerequisite-patch-id: ac6fbdba01fa66022d37321e8270d4f9f9fb834b
prerequisite-patch-id: 45883e7cfa080a48b943e4ba58e0da22767c4c01
--
2.25.1
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2026-08-10 5:56 Allison Henderson [this message]
2026-08-11 10:54 ` [PATCH net-next] net/rds: clear i_rx_lat_trace in rds_inc_path_init() Simon Horman
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