From: Mahanta Jambigi <mjambigi@linux.ibm.com>
To: andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com,
kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, alibuda@linux.alibaba.com,
dust.li@linux.alibaba.com, sidraya@linux.ibm.com
Cc: pasic@linux.ibm.com, horms@kernel.org, tonylu@linux.alibaba.com,
guwen@linux.alibaba.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
Mahanta Jambigi <mjambigi@linux.ibm.com>,
Hidayath Khan <hidayath@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] net/smc: free pending qentry in smc_llc_flow_stop() before memset
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:39:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260818073943.1108383-1-mjambigi@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
smc_llc_flow_stop() resets a flow struct with a blind memset:
spin_lock_bh(&lgr->llc_flow_lock);
memset(flow, 0, sizeof(*flow));
flow->type = SMC_LLC_FLOW_NONE;
spin_unlock_bh(&lgr->llc_flow_lock);
If flow->qentry is non-NULL at this point the pointer is overwritten without the
allocation being freed, leaking one kmalloc object.
A late-arriving duplicate CONFIRM_LINK or ADD_LINK_CONT message can set
flow->qentry after the legitimate message has been consumed by the waiter via
smc_llc_flow_qentry_clr() (which NULLs the pointer but leaves flow->type
non-zero) but before the flow completes and smc_llc_flow_stop() runs. In that
window the duplicate is stashed into flow->qentry, and then lost when
smc_llc_flow_stop() zeros the struct.
Call smc_llc_flow_qentry_del() inside the lock before the memset.
smc_llc_flow_qentry_del() already checks flow->qentry before freeing, so the
normal case where no entry is pending is a no-op.
Fixes: 555da9af827d ("net/smc: add event-based llc_flow framework")
Reviewed-by: Hidayath Khan <hidayath@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mahanta Jambigi <mjambigi@linux.ibm.com>
---
net/smc/smc_llc.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/smc/smc_llc.c b/net/smc/smc_llc.c
index 954b2ff1815c..fa1ff543638f 100644
--- a/net/smc/smc_llc.c
+++ b/net/smc/smc_llc.c
@@ -320,6 +320,7 @@ int smc_llc_flow_initiate(struct smc_link_group *lgr,
void smc_llc_flow_stop(struct smc_link_group *lgr, struct smc_llc_flow *flow)
{
spin_lock_bh(&lgr->llc_flow_lock);
+ smc_llc_flow_qentry_del(flow);
memset(flow, 0, sizeof(*flow));
flow->type = SMC_LLC_FLOW_NONE;
spin_unlock_bh(&lgr->llc_flow_lock);
--
2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)
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