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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 1/4] net/rds: use wq_has_sleeper() in release_in_xmit()
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:34:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260814013501.43760-2-achender@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260814013501.43760-1-achender@kernel.org>

release_in_xmit() clears RDS_IN_XMIT with clear_bit_unlock() and then
checks waitqueue_active() to decide whether anyone needs waking.
clear_bit_unlock() is only a release operation: it orders the
critical section before the bit clear, but does not order the
subsequent plain load of the wait queue head after it.  The waiter
side does the mirror image - it adds itself to the wait queue and
then tests the bit.  That is the classic store-buffering pattern: the
releasing CPU can read the wait queue as empty while the waiting CPU
still reads the bit as set, so the sleeper is never woken.

The waiters are rds_conn_shutdown() and rds_tcp_reset_callbacks(),
both in uninterruptible wait_event() with no timeout.  A lost wake-up
strands the shutdown worker on its single-threaded workqueue until
some other sender releases the bit again - and on a connection that
is being torn down precisely because it failed, there may never be
another sender.

The barrier used to be there: release_in_xmit() did clear_bit()
followed by smp_mb__after_atomic() until commit 1422f28826d2 ("rds:
introduce acquire/release ordering in acquire/release_in_xmit()")
folded both into clear_bit_unlock(), which strengthened the lock
hand-off but silently dropped the full barrier the wake-up check
depends on.  The refill counterpart, release_refill() in
net/rds/ib_recv.c, still carries its smp_mb__after_atomic() for
exactly this reason.

Use wq_has_sleeper(), which is waitqueue_active() preceded by the
required full barrier.

Fixes: 1422f28826d2 ("rds: introduce acquire/release ordering in acquire/release_in_xmit()")
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>
---
 net/rds/send.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/rds/send.c b/net/rds/send.c
index 15a1b97f13e7..8aad185e4b1a 100644
--- a/net/rds/send.c
+++ b/net/rds/send.c
@@ -114,8 +114,13 @@ static void release_in_xmit(struct rds_conn_path *cp)
 	 * hot path and finding waiters is very rare.  We don't want to walk
 	 * the system-wide hashed waitqueue buckets in the fast path only to
 	 * almost never find waiters.
+	 *
+	 * wq_has_sleeper() supplies the full barrier that orders the wait
+	 * queue read after the bit clear; clear_bit_unlock() alone is only
+	 * a release and would let this check read a stale empty queue,
+	 * losing the wake-up.
 	 */
-	if (waitqueue_active(&cp->cp_waitq))
+	if (wq_has_sleeper(&cp->cp_waitq))
 		wake_up_all(&cp->cp_waitq);
 }
 
-- 
2.25.1


  reply	other threads:[~2026-08-14  1:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-14  1:34 [PATCH net-next 0/4] net/rds: own the fastpath locks across connection teardown Allison Henderson
2026-08-14  1:34 ` Allison Henderson [this message]
2026-08-14  1:34 ` [PATCH net-next 2/4] net/rds: clear cp_flags bits individually in rds_conn_path_reset() Allison Henderson
2026-08-14  1:35 ` [PATCH net-next 3/4] net/rds: acquire the fastpath locks in rds_conn_shutdown() Allison Henderson
2026-08-14  1:35 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] net/rds: acquire RDS_IN_XMIT in rds_tcp_reset_callbacks() Allison Henderson

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