* [PATCH net-next v2 0/9] net/rds: make connection lifetime reference-counted
@ 2026-09-12 3:50 Allison Henderson
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From: Allison Henderson @ 2026-09-12 3:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev, linux-rdma, pabeni, edumazet, kuba, horms; +Cc: achender, nicoyip.dev
Hi all,
This is v2 of the connection-lifetime set (v1 at [1]), following
"net/rds: own the fastpath locks across connection teardown", which is
in net-next. It is targeted at net-next: although the series fixes
real use-after-frees (one syzbot report and one report from Chengfeng
Ye below), it does so by reworking connection lifetime rather than
patching the individual crash sites, and that rework is too invasive
for net.
rds_conn_destroy() frees the connection, its paths and its workqueues
on the spot, relying on the documented assumption that "no one else is
referencing the connection". That assumption stopped being true a
long time ago: connections are destroyed on netns teardown and on a
protocol-version mismatch as well as on rmmod, while pointers to them
still live in socket rs_conn caches, congestion-map conn lists, CM
callbacks and workers, and - for as long as an application leaves data
unread - in every rds_incoming sitting on a receive queue. No single
Fixes: commit covers the rot, so the series carries Reported-by tags
where there are concrete reports instead.
Patch 1 (new) guards the five work-arming sites that never tested
rds_destroy_pending(): two IB completion paths, the IB recv refill,
the TCP accept kick and the multipath reconnect in sendmsg.
Patch 2 gives the connection its own destroy-in-progress marker so
that the predicate also covers the one single-connection destroy.
Based on UEK commits:
e2f5005adf63 net/rds: Add krefs to struct rds_connection
https://github.com/oracle/linux-uek/commit/e2f5005adf63
6c53ef92f46e net/rds: Merge uses of conn->c_destroy_in_prog & RDS_DESTROY_PENDING
https://github.com/oracle/linux-uek/commit/6c53ef92f46e
Patch 3 splits rds_conn_destroy() into a synchronous quiesce and a
kref-governed free.
Based on UEK commits:
2c8569e4c880 ("net/rds: Add krefs to struct rds_connection").
https://github.com/oracle/linux-uek/commit/2c8569e4c880
Patch 4 makes each transport's exit path wait for its connections to
actually be freed before the module goes away. The wait is
unbounded and warns every ten seconds: a connection reference can be
held for an application-controlled time (unread data), so a timeout
would only move the use-after-free from freed memory to unloaded
module text. rmmod blocking while data is queued and unread is the
historical RDS contract. For IB the wait re-sweeps the nodev list,
since device connections migrate to it asynchronously.
Based on UEK commits:
ece4b4e39afa ("net/rds: wait_event_timeout until zero connections during rmmod")
https://github.com/oracle/linux-uek/commit/ece4b4e39afa
905ec90e6166 ("net/rds: Each RDS transport should keep its own connection count")
https://github.com/oracle/linux-uek/commit/905ec90e6166
Patch 5 (new) unlinks each transport node before its destroy, so a
free deferred past the teardown loop cannot write into the loop's
stack-local list head.
Patch 6 hands out real references everywhere a connection pointer
previously escaped bare, RCU-annotates parent->c_passive, refuses to
revive a passive connection whose destroy has begun, and serializes
the SIOCRDSSETTOS check with the rs_conn cache.
Based on UEK commits:
2c8569e4c880 ("net/rds: Add krefs to struct rds_connection")
https://github.com/oracle/linux-uek/commit/2c8569e4c880
0e9e3a72b7f7 ("net/rds: rds_sendmsg must use rs_conn only when not being destroyed").
https://github.com/oracle/linux-uek/commit/0e9e3a72b7f7
Patch 7 (new) pins the connection across the RDMA-CM event handler
and rejects a connect request for a connection whose destroy has
already quiesced it.
Patch 8 drops the now-unused global rds_conn_count.
Based on UEK commits:
905ec90e6166 ("net/rds: Each RDS transport should keep its own connection count").
https://github.com/oracle/linux-uek/commit/905ec90e6166
Patch 9 makes struct rds_incoming hold a reference on i_conn, the
fix for the KASAN use-after-free Chengfeng Ye reported [2].
Based on UEK commits:
99b9a3715419 ("net/rds: fix crash by expanding kref coverage to rds_incoming.i_conn").
https://github.com/oracle/linux-uek/commit/99b9a3715419
Patches 3, 6, 4 and 9 are ports of the connection kref work Sharath
Srinivasan did for Oracle UEK, adapted to the upstream code.
The series has been validated with the RDS selftests over loopback-TCP
and RXE-RDMA, plus churn tests that delete network namespaces and
unload the modules under live rds-stress traffic.
Changes since v1 [1]:
- New patch 1: guard the five work-arming sites that never tested
rds_destroy_pending(); patch 2's changelog and comments narrowed
to what it actually newly covers.
- Patch 4 moved ahead of the reference holders, so no bisect point
has references without the unload wait; wait made unbounded with a
periodic warning instead of a 10 s timeout; IB exit re-sweeps the
nodev list for connections that detach from their device late.
- New patch 5: transport nodes unlinked before destroy (stack list
head use-after-free from a deferred conn_free).
- Patch 6: c_passive RCU-annotated; a destroyed passive child is
refused by __rds_conn_create() and clears the parent's pointer
itself; SIOCRDSSETTOS uses rs_lock; lookup comment reworded;
explicit not-for-stable note.
- New patch 7: reference across the CM event handler, and a
destroy-pending re-check in rds_ib_cm_handle_connect().
- Patch 9: changelog states what a lingering inc keeps alive and
that it blocks module unload.
- Changelog corrections throughout (netns teardown paths named as the
non-rmmod destroyers, stale rds_conn_path_destroy() reference).
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260904070248.160384-1-achender@kernel.org/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260720184955.3008978-1-nicoyip.dev@gmail.com/
Allison
Allison Henderson (5):
net/rds: guard every work-requeueing site with rds_destroy_pending()
net/rds: make rds_destroy_pending() cover single-connection destroy
net/rds: unlink transport nodes before a possibly deferred connection
free
net/rds: pin the connection across RDMA-CM event handling
net/rds: drop rds_conn_count in favor of t_conn_count
Sharath Srinivasan (4):
net/rds: split connection destroy into quiesce and kref-governed free
net/rds: wait for connections to be freed on transport unload
net/rds: hold connection references in lookup, sockets and c_passive
net/rds: hold a connection reference from struct rds_incoming
net/rds/af_rds.c | 20 ++-
net/rds/connection.c | 274 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
net/rds/ib.c | 21 ++-
net/rds/ib_cm.c | 19 ++-
net/rds/ib_rdma.c | 12 +-
net/rds/ib_recv.c | 6 +-
net/rds/ib_send.c | 18 ++-
net/rds/loop.c | 39 ++++--
net/rds/message.c | 16 ++-
net/rds/rdma_transport.c | 16 ++-
net/rds/rds.h | 40 +++++-
net/rds/recv.c | 21 ++-
net/rds/send.c | 56 ++++++--
net/rds/tcp.c | 29 ++++-
net/rds/tcp_listen.c | 15 ++-
15 files changed, 527 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)
--
2.25.1
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From: Allison Henderson @ 2026-09-12 3:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev, linux-rdma, pabeni, edumazet, kuba, horms; +Cc: achender, nicoyip.dev
rds_conn_destroy() cancels the path works and then destroys the
per-path workqueue. The sites that can re-arm those works are
supposed to test rds_destroy_pending() under rcu_read_lock() first,
paired with the synchronize_rcu() in the destroy path, so that no new
work can be queued once the cancellation has begun.
Five arming sites never got that guard:
- rds_ib_send_cqe_handler() and rds_ib_send_add_credits() re-arm
cp_send_w when a send completion or a credit update clears
RDS_LL_SEND_FULL,
- rds_ib_recv_refill() re-arms cp_recv_w when the recv ring runs
low,
- rds_tcp_accept_one() kicks cp_recv_w on the freshly accepted
socket, and
- rds_sendmsg() arms cp_conn_w for a multipath connection whose
path 0 is not up yet.
The IB completion sites are reachable from soft-irq at any point
before the QP is drained, so a completion landing in the window
between the cancel and destroy_workqueue() in rds_conn_path_destroy()
re-arms a work on a workqueue that is about to be destroyed: with
delay 0 the work is queued directly on the freed workqueue, and with
delay 1 the timer survives destroy_workqueue() unseen and fires
afterwards, queueing from a timer_list that lives in the freed c_path
array.
Wrap all five sites in the same rcu_read_lock() +
rds_destroy_pending() pattern the other arming sites already use.
Fixes: ebeeb1ad9b8a ("rds: tcp: use rds_destroy_pending() to synchronize netns/module teardown and rds connection/workq management")
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>
---
net/rds/ib_recv.c | 6 +++++-
net/rds/ib_send.c | 18 ++++++++++++++----
net/rds/send.c | 11 ++++++++---
net/rds/tcp_listen.c | 10 +++++++---
4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/rds/ib_recv.c b/net/rds/ib_recv.c
index bd6cb3ffaa57..7d45808544a0 100644
--- a/net/rds/ib_recv.c
+++ b/net/rds/ib_recv.c
@@ -458,7 +458,11 @@ void rds_ib_recv_refill(struct rds_connection *conn, int prefill, gfp_t gfp)
(must_wake ||
(can_wait && rds_ib_ring_low(&ic->i_recv_ring)) ||
rds_ib_ring_empty(&ic->i_recv_ring))) {
- queue_delayed_work(conn->c_path->cp_wq, &conn->c_recv_w, 1);
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ if (!rds_destroy_pending(conn))
+ queue_delayed_work(conn->c_path->cp_wq,
+ &conn->c_recv_w, 1);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
}
if (can_wait)
cond_resched();
diff --git a/net/rds/ib_send.c b/net/rds/ib_send.c
index d6be95542119..bc411e96ad12 100644
--- a/net/rds/ib_send.c
+++ b/net/rds/ib_send.c
@@ -298,8 +298,13 @@ void rds_ib_send_cqe_handler(struct rds_ib_connection *ic, struct ib_wc *wc)
rds_ib_sub_signaled(ic, nr_sig);
if (test_and_clear_bit(RDS_LL_SEND_FULL, &conn->c_flags) ||
- test_bit(0, &conn->c_map_queued))
- queue_delayed_work(conn->c_path->cp_wq, &conn->c_send_w, 0);
+ test_bit(0, &conn->c_map_queued)) {
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ if (!rds_destroy_pending(conn))
+ queue_delayed_work(conn->c_path->cp_wq,
+ &conn->c_send_w, 0);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ }
/* We expect errors as the qp is drained during shutdown */
if (wc->status != IB_WC_SUCCESS && rds_conn_up(conn)) {
@@ -420,8 +425,13 @@ void rds_ib_send_add_credits(struct rds_connection *conn, unsigned int credits)
test_bit(RDS_LL_SEND_FULL, &conn->c_flags) ? ", ll_send_full" : "");
atomic_add(IB_SET_SEND_CREDITS(credits), &ic->i_credits);
- if (test_and_clear_bit(RDS_LL_SEND_FULL, &conn->c_flags))
- queue_delayed_work(conn->c_path->cp_wq, &conn->c_send_w, 0);
+ if (test_and_clear_bit(RDS_LL_SEND_FULL, &conn->c_flags)) {
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ if (!rds_destroy_pending(conn))
+ queue_delayed_work(conn->c_path->cp_wq,
+ &conn->c_send_w, 0);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ }
WARN_ON(IB_GET_SEND_CREDITS(credits) >= 16384);
diff --git a/net/rds/send.c b/net/rds/send.c
index 1afa981e5c06..32c411d10e3e 100644
--- a/net/rds/send.c
+++ b/net/rds/send.c
@@ -1378,9 +1378,14 @@ int rds_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t payload_len)
* outstanding.
*/
if (!test_and_set_bit(RDS_RECONNECT_PENDING,
- &conn->c_path[0].cp_flags))
- queue_delayed_work(conn->c_path[0].cp_wq,
- &conn->c_path[0].cp_conn_w, 0);
+ &conn->c_path[0].cp_flags)) {
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ if (!rds_destroy_pending(conn))
+ queue_delayed_work(conn->c_path[0].cp_wq,
+ &conn->c_path[0].cp_conn_w,
+ 0);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ }
rds_send_ping(conn, 0);
}
diff --git a/net/rds/tcp_listen.c b/net/rds/tcp_listen.c
index 13fa60c1985b..8a0c54aced5e 100644
--- a/net/rds/tcp_listen.c
+++ b/net/rds/tcp_listen.c
@@ -316,10 +316,14 @@ int rds_tcp_accept_one(struct rds_tcp_net *rtn)
*/
if (READ_ONCE(sk->sk_state) == TCP_CLOSE_WAIT ||
READ_ONCE(sk->sk_state) == TCP_LAST_ACK ||
- READ_ONCE(sk->sk_state) == TCP_CLOSE)
+ READ_ONCE(sk->sk_state) == TCP_CLOSE) {
rds_conn_path_drop(cp, 0);
- else
- queue_delayed_work(cp->cp_wq, &cp->cp_recv_w, 0);
+ } else {
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ if (!rds_destroy_pending(cp->cp_conn))
+ queue_delayed_work(cp->cp_wq, &cp->cp_recv_w, 0);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ }
sock_put(sk);
--
2.25.1
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From: Allison Henderson @ 2026-09-12 3:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev, linux-rdma, pabeni, edumazet, kuba, horms; +Cc: achender, nicoyip.dev
rds_conn_destroy() cancels the path works and then destroys the
per-path workqueue. However, nothing currently stops the
work-requeueing sites from queueing new work on the connection while
that happens. The existing code would suggest that this protection
is supposed to come from rds_destroy_pending(), since all of those
sites guard the queueing with rds_destroy_pending() under
rcu_read_lock() (the last stragglers were converted by the previous
patch), and rds_conn_destroy() already issues a
synchronize_rcu() after unhashing the connection. But the predicate
only tests for the two global teardown cases (netns destruction via
check_net(), module unload via ->t_unloading). Because the conn
itself lacks any indication that a destroy is in progress, the
predicate does not cover the destruction of a single connection
outside these two cases.
rds_conn_destroy() is not limited to the global paths:
rds_ib_cm_connect_complete() destroys a single connection whose peer
negotiated an unsupported protocol version. (The other per-transport
caller, rds_ib_destroy_nodev_conns(), is only reached from
rds_ib_exit(), where ->t_unloading already covers it.) While that
destroy runs, a concurrent rds_cong_queue_updates() can
still find the connection on the congestion map's m_conn_list (the
conn is only removed from it after the paths are torn down) and call
queue_delayed_work() on a cp_wq that destroy_workqueue() has already
freed. Additionally, the other requeueing sites can likewise re-arm
works that live in the about-to-be-freed connection unless
rds_destroy_pending() has something to guard it with.
The version-mismatch path used to be covered: commit c90ecbfaf50d2
("rds: Use atomic flag to track connections being destroyed")
introduced the RDS_DESTROY_PENDING cp_flags bit for exactly this, and
after commit ebeeb1ad9b8ad ("rds: tcp: use rds_destroy_pending() to
synchronize netns/module teardown and rds connection/workq management")
it was set right before that rds_conn_destroy() call and
tested via rds_ib_is_unloading(). Commit cdc306a5c9cd3 ("rds: make
v3.1 as compat version") then removed the last set_bit while leaving
the test behind, so the bit has been dead ever since and per-conn
destroy has run unguarded.
Bring the protection back at the connection level: set
conn->c_destroy_in_prog before the unhash + synchronize_rcu() sequence
in rds_conn_destroy() and test it in rds_destroy_pending(). The
existing rcu_read_lock() around every check-and-queue site pairs with
that synchronize_rcu(): once it returns, every new reader observes the
flag and refuses to queue, and anything queued before it is flushed or
cancelled by the existing teardown. Drop the now-unreferenced
RDS_DESTROY_PENDING bit and its dead test.
In the Oracle UEK kernel the equivalent conn->c_destroy_in_prog flag
is part of the larger connection refcounting rework ("net/rds: Add
krefs to struct rds_connection"), including ("net/rds: Merge uses of
conn->c_destroy_in_prog & RDS_DESTROY_PENDING"). This ports the
missing pieces of the requeue guard, which stand on their own.
Fixes: cdc306a5c9cd3 ("rds: make v3.1 as compat version")
Suggested-by: Sharath Srinivasan <sharath.srinivasan@oracle.com>
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>
---
net/rds/connection.c | 8 ++++++++
net/rds/ib.c | 5 +----
net/rds/rds.h | 12 ++++++++++--
3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/rds/connection.c b/net/rds/connection.c
index b6c4beb50eaf..50e1b6bfceea 100644
--- a/net/rds/connection.c
+++ b/net/rds/connection.c
@@ -574,6 +574,14 @@ void rds_conn_destroy(struct rds_connection *conn)
"%pI4\n", conn, &conn->c_laddr,
&conn->c_faddr);
+ /* Make rds_destroy_pending() true for this conn. Together with
+ * the synchronize_rcu() below this stops the work-requeueing
+ * sites (which all test rds_destroy_pending() under
+ * rcu_read_lock()) from queueing new work on the path
+ * workqueues once we start cancelling and destroying them.
+ */
+ WRITE_ONCE(conn->c_destroy_in_prog, true);
+
/* Ensure conn will not be scheduled for reconnect */
spin_lock_irq(&rds_conn_lock);
hlist_del_init_rcu(&conn->c_hash_node);
diff --git a/net/rds/ib.c b/net/rds/ib.c
index 786f39169bc1..9fe3b9951bd3 100644
--- a/net/rds/ib.c
+++ b/net/rds/ib.c
@@ -525,10 +525,7 @@ static void rds_ib_set_unloading(void)
static bool rds_ib_is_unloading(struct rds_connection *conn)
{
- struct rds_conn_path *cp = &conn->c_path[0];
-
- return (test_bit(RDS_DESTROY_PENDING, &cp->cp_flags) ||
- atomic_read(&rds_ib_unloading) != 0);
+ return atomic_read(&rds_ib_unloading) != 0;
}
void rds_ib_exit(void)
diff --git a/net/rds/rds.h b/net/rds/rds.h
index 2db49573dacd..50b08c28ab86 100644
--- a/net/rds/rds.h
+++ b/net/rds/rds.h
@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ enum {
#define RDS_RECONNECT_PENDING 1
#define RDS_IN_XMIT 2
#define RDS_RECV_REFILL 3
-#define RDS_DESTROY_PENDING 4
/* Max number of multipaths per RDS connection. Must be a power of 2 */
#define RDS_MPATH_WORKERS 8
@@ -148,6 +147,14 @@ struct rds_connection {
c_pad_to_32:29;
int c_npaths;
bool c_with_sport_idx;
+ /* Set once, by rds_conn_destroy(), before it cancels the path
+ * works; read through rds_destroy_pending(). A site that arms
+ * a path work must test the predicate and queue the work inside
+ * one rcu_read_lock() section: the synchronize_rcu() that
+ * follows the store is what keeps a queue issued after the
+ * cancellation from landing on a destroyed workqueue.
+ */
+ bool c_destroy_in_prog;
struct rds_connection *c_passive;
struct rds_transport *c_trans;
@@ -994,7 +1001,8 @@ void __rds_put_mr_final(struct kref *kref);
static inline bool rds_destroy_pending(struct rds_connection *conn)
{
- return !check_net(rds_conn_net(conn)) ||
+ return READ_ONCE(conn->c_destroy_in_prog) ||
+ !check_net(rds_conn_net(conn)) ||
(conn->c_trans->t_unloading && conn->c_trans->t_unloading(conn));
}
--
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From: Allison Henderson @ 2026-09-12 3:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev, linux-rdma, pabeni, edumazet, kuba, horms; +Cc: achender, nicoyip.dev
From: Sharath Srinivasan <sharath.srinivasan@oracle.com>
rds_conn_destroy() tears down the transport state and immediately
frees the connection, along with its paths and its workqueues. This
relies on the assumption (documented in the rds_conn_destroy()
comments) that "no one else is referencing the connection", which "we
can only ensure ... in the rmmod path". However, the callers stopped
honoring that long ago. Today, connections are also destroyed on
network namespace teardown (rds_tcp_kill_sock() and
rds_loop_kill_conns()) and, one at a time, when a peer negotiates an
unsupported protocol version (rds_ib_cm_connect_complete()).
This leaves loose ends since references to these destroyed
connections still exist. Sockets cache their connections in rs_conn,
and congestion updates will walk the maps' m_conn_list. The CM
callbacks and workers may also still hold the pointer.
Prepare to close those holes by making the connection refcounted:
- kref_init() the connection in __rds_conn_create(); the initial
reference belongs to whoever is responsible for destroying the
connection.
- rds_conn_destroy() still quiesces synchronously exactly as before
(workers cancelled, paths dropped and shut down, queued messages
purged, congestion list removal), but the frees - the transport's
conn_free, the path workqueues, the c_path array and the connection
slab object - move to rds_conn_destroy_fini(), which runs when the
last reference is dropped via rds_conn_put().
- Export rds_conn_get()/rds_conn_put() for the reference holders
introduced in the following patches.
With no additional reference holders yet, this only sets up the
refcounting framework and is functionally equivalent to the current
code (the initial reference is the only one). Subsequent patches will
take references at the places that today rely on bare pointers.
Based on the Oracle UEK commit "net/rds: Add krefs to struct
rds_connection".
Signed-off-by: Sharath Srinivasan <sharath.srinivasan@oracle.com>
[achender: substantial reimplementation for net-next: UEK's
rds_conn_destroy_init()/_fini() split redone against upstream's
rds_conn_destroy()/rds_conn_path_destroy() (no heartbeat/reap/trace
infrastructure, no rds_net, single conn hash); destroy keeps its
one-call external interface; holder coverage split out into follow-up
patches; rewrite commit message]
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>
---
net/rds/connection.c | 96 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
net/rds/rds.h | 8 ++++
2 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/rds/connection.c b/net/rds/connection.c
index 50e1b6bfceea..cc4e74b731df 100644
--- a/net/rds/connection.c
+++ b/net/rds/connection.c
@@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ static struct rds_connection *__rds_conn_create(struct net *net,
goto out;
}
+ kref_init(&conn->c_refcount);
INIT_HLIST_NODE(&conn->c_hash_node);
conn->c_laddr = *laddr;
conn->c_isv6 = !ipv6_addr_v4mapped(laddr);
@@ -466,9 +467,10 @@ void rds_conn_shutdown(struct rds_conn_path *cp)
* Quiesce the reconnect timer before bailing
* out, though. When a pending destroy did
* suppress the queue, no later pass runs, and
- * rds_conn_path_destroy() is about to flush
- * cp_down_w and free the path: it must not
- * find cp_conn_w still armed. A successor
+ * rds_conn_path_quiesce() is about to flush
+ * cp_down_w, ahead of the path's deferred
+ * free: it must not find cp_conn_w still
+ * armed. A successor
* pass, when there is one, re-arms the
* reconnect from its own tail.
*/
@@ -515,10 +517,12 @@ void rds_conn_shutdown(struct rds_conn_path *cp)
conn->c_trans->conn_slots_available(conn, false);
}
-/* destroy a single rds_conn_path. rds_conn_destroy() iterates over
- * all paths using rds_conn_path_destroy()
+/* quiesce a single rds_conn_path: shut it down and tear down any
+ * queued messages. rds_conn_destroy() iterates over all paths using
+ * rds_conn_path_quiesce(); the transport state and the workqueue are
+ * freed later, from rds_conn_path_free().
*/
-static void rds_conn_path_destroy(struct rds_conn_path *cp)
+static void rds_conn_path_quiesce(struct rds_conn_path *cp)
{
struct rds_message *rm, *rtmp;
@@ -547,6 +551,16 @@ static void rds_conn_path_destroy(struct rds_conn_path *cp)
WARN_ON(delayed_work_pending(&cp->cp_recv_w));
WARN_ON(delayed_work_pending(&cp->cp_conn_w));
WARN_ON(work_pending(&cp->cp_down_w));
+}
+
+/* free a quiesced rds_conn_path's transport state and workqueue; runs
+ * from rds_conn_destroy_fini() once the last connection reference is
+ * dropped.
+ */
+static void rds_conn_path_free(struct rds_conn_path *cp)
+{
+ if (!cp->cp_transport_data)
+ return;
if (cp->cp_wq != rds_wq) {
destroy_workqueue(cp->cp_wq);
@@ -556,16 +570,52 @@ static void rds_conn_path_destroy(struct rds_conn_path *cp)
cp->cp_conn->c_trans->conn_free(cp->cp_transport_data);
}
+/* Free a connection. This runs from rds_conn_put() when the last
+ * reference is dropped, after rds_conn_destroy() has quiesced the
+ * connection and dropped the initial reference.
+ */
+static void rds_conn_destroy_fini(struct kref *kref)
+{
+ struct rds_connection *conn = container_of(kref, struct rds_connection,
+ c_refcount);
+ int npaths = (conn->c_trans->t_mp_capable ? RDS_MPATH_WORKERS : 1);
+ unsigned long flags;
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < npaths; i++)
+ rds_conn_path_free(&conn->c_path[i]);
+
+ kfree(conn->c_path);
+ kmem_cache_free(rds_conn_slab, conn);
+
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&rds_conn_lock, flags);
+ rds_conn_count--;
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rds_conn_lock, flags);
+}
+
+void rds_conn_get(struct rds_connection *conn)
+{
+ kref_get(&conn->c_refcount);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rds_conn_get);
+
+void rds_conn_put(struct rds_connection *conn)
+{
+ kref_put(&conn->c_refcount, rds_conn_destroy_fini);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rds_conn_put);
+
/*
* Stop and free a connection.
*
- * This can only be used in very limited circumstances. It assumes that once
- * the conn has been shutdown that no one else is referencing the connection.
- * We can only ensure this in the rmmod path in the current code.
+ * Quiesces the connection synchronously (workers cancelled, transport
+ * connections shut down, queued messages dropped) and drops the
+ * initial reference. The memory - including the transport's
+ * per-connection state and the path workqueues - is freed once the
+ * last rds_conn_put() runs, which may be after this returns.
*/
void rds_conn_destroy(struct rds_connection *conn)
{
- unsigned long flags;
int i;
struct rds_conn_path *cp;
int npaths = (conn->c_trans->t_mp_capable ? RDS_MPATH_WORKERS : 1);
@@ -579,11 +629,23 @@ void rds_conn_destroy(struct rds_connection *conn)
* sites (which all test rds_destroy_pending() under
* rcu_read_lock()) from queueing new work on the path
* workqueues once we start cancelling and destroying them.
+ *
+ * Now that the transport state stays discoverable (e.g. on the
+ * transports' connection lists) until the final rds_conn_put(),
+ * a conn can be handed to rds_conn_destroy() more than once -
+ * e.g. dropped for a protocol version mismatch and then found
+ * again at module unload. Only the first caller proceeds; the
+ * unhash also happens under rds_conn_lock, so a looked-up conn
+ * can never be quiesced twice.
*/
+ spin_lock_irq(&rds_conn_lock);
+ if (conn->c_destroy_in_prog) {
+ spin_unlock_irq(&rds_conn_lock);
+ return;
+ }
WRITE_ONCE(conn->c_destroy_in_prog, true);
/* Ensure conn will not be scheduled for reconnect */
- spin_lock_irq(&rds_conn_lock);
hlist_del_init_rcu(&conn->c_hash_node);
spin_unlock_irq(&rds_conn_lock);
synchronize_rcu();
@@ -591,7 +653,7 @@ void rds_conn_destroy(struct rds_connection *conn)
/* shut the connection down */
for (i = 0; i < npaths; i++) {
cp = &conn->c_path[i];
- rds_conn_path_destroy(cp);
+ rds_conn_path_quiesce(cp);
BUG_ON(!list_empty(&cp->cp_retrans));
}
@@ -602,12 +664,10 @@ void rds_conn_destroy(struct rds_connection *conn)
*/
rds_cong_remove_conn(conn);
- kfree(conn->c_path);
- kmem_cache_free(rds_conn_slab, conn);
-
- spin_lock_irqsave(&rds_conn_lock, flags);
- rds_conn_count--;
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rds_conn_lock, flags);
+ /* drop the initial reference; the connection is freed from
+ * rds_conn_destroy_fini() once every holder has dropped theirs
+ */
+ rds_conn_put(conn);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rds_conn_destroy);
diff --git a/net/rds/rds.h b/net/rds/rds.h
index 50b08c28ab86..49629108c22a 100644
--- a/net/rds/rds.h
+++ b/net/rds/rds.h
@@ -137,6 +137,12 @@ struct rds_conn_path {
/* One rds_connection per RDS address pair */
struct rds_connection {
struct hlist_node c_hash_node;
+ /* Free of the connection memory (not the teardown of its
+ * transport state - that stays synchronous in
+ * rds_conn_destroy()) is deferred until the last reference is
+ * dropped via rds_conn_put().
+ */
+ struct kref c_refcount;
struct in6_addr c_laddr;
struct in6_addr c_faddr;
int c_dev_if; /* ifindex used for this conn */
@@ -826,6 +832,8 @@ struct rds_connection *rds_conn_create_outgoing(struct net *net,
u8 tos, gfp_t gfp, int dev_if);
void rds_conn_shutdown(struct rds_conn_path *cpath);
void rds_conn_destroy(struct rds_connection *conn);
+void rds_conn_get(struct rds_connection *conn);
+void rds_conn_put(struct rds_connection *conn);
void rds_conn_drop(struct rds_connection *conn);
void rds_conn_path_drop(struct rds_conn_path *cpath, bool destroy);
void rds_conn_connect_if_down(struct rds_connection *conn);
--
2.25.1
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@ 2026-09-12 3:50 ` Allison Henderson
2026-09-12 3:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 5/9] net/rds: unlink transport nodes before a possibly deferred connection free Allison Henderson
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From: Allison Henderson @ 2026-09-12 3:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev, linux-rdma, pabeni, edumazet, kuba, horms; +Cc: achender, nicoyip.dev
From: Sharath Srinivasan <sharath.srinivasan@oracle.com>
Since connection free became asynchronous, rds_conn_destroy() only
quiesces the connection; the actual free - including the transport's
conn_free, which lives in the transport module - runs when the last
reference is dropped. The transports' exit paths destroy all of
their connections and then proceed to unload, so a free that is still
pending (a racing lookup-style holder, or simply the destroyer's own
put not yet run when destroy was invoked from another context earlier)
would execute transport module code after that module's text is gone.
Count each transport's live connections in t_conn_count (incremented
when a connection is published in __rds_conn_create(), decremented as
the last step of rds_conn_destroy_fini()) and make the transport exit
paths - rds_ib_exit(), rds_tcp_exit() and rds_loop_exit() - wait for
the count to drop to zero after destroying their connections.
A bound socket holds a module reference on its own transport
(rds_trans_get_preferred()), but that does not bound the wait: once
the following patches make incs hold a connection reference, an
unread datagram pins its connection for as long as the application
leaves it on the receive queue, and rds_find_bound() does not filter
on transport, so that socket may well belong to a different transport
than the connection and pin nothing that stops this unload.
Proceeding after a timeout would turn a leak into a use-after-free in
this module's text, so the wait is unbounded: it polls the count,
warns every ten seconds naming the transport and the number of
connections outstanding, and returns only when the count reaches
zero. rmmod therefore blocks while data is queued and unread, which
is the historical RDS contract - teardown does not discard queued
data.
rds_ib_exit() has one more wrinkle. rds_ib_dev_shutdown() only drops
the connections still attached to a device, and each of them moves
itself to ib_nodev_conns from its own shutdown work, asynchronously.
A connection that has not migrated by the time
rds_ib_destroy_nodev_conns() sweeps the list would never be
destroyed, and would hold the count up for good. So the wait takes a
resweep callback, which rds_ib_exit() points at
rds_ib_destroy_nodev_conns(): late arrivals get destroyed on the next
poll instead of being waited on.
In rds_ib_exit(), tearing down the last connection can also drop the
final reference on a device, which defers rds_ib_dev_free() - again
this module's text - to rds_wq. Flush the workqueue once after the
connections are gone; rds_ib_dev_free() queues nothing further on
rds_wq, so a single pass drains it.
Based on the Oracle UEK commits "net/rds: wait_event_timeout
until zero connections during rmmod" and "net/rds:
Each RDS transport should keep its own connection count".
Signed-off-by: Sharath Srinivasan <sharath.srinivasan@oracle.com>
[achender: reimplementation for net-next: t_conn_count did not exist
upstream and is introduced here; single global waitqueue instead of
per-transport (the loop transport never goes through
rds_trans_register()); unbounded wait with a periodic warning in
place of UEK's wait_event_timeout() + WARN_ON(), plus the resweep for
IB's asynchronous device detach; also cover rds_loop_exit(); rewrite
commit message]
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>
---
net/rds/connection.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
net/rds/ib.c | 17 +++++++++++++++
net/rds/loop.c | 2 ++
net/rds/rds.h | 13 ++++++++++++
net/rds/tcp.c | 1 +
5 files changed, 82 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/rds/connection.c b/net/rds/connection.c
index cc4e74b731df..5848dd295911 100644
--- a/net/rds/connection.c
+++ b/net/rds/connection.c
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@
/* converting this to RCU is a chore for another day.. */
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(rds_conn_lock);
static unsigned long rds_conn_count;
+/* woken whenever a transport's t_conn_count drops to zero */
+static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(rds_conn_freed_waitq);
static struct hlist_head rds_conn_hash[RDS_CONNECTION_HASH_ENTRIES];
static struct kmem_cache *rds_conn_slab;
@@ -325,6 +327,7 @@ static struct rds_connection *__rds_conn_create(struct net *net,
parent->c_passive = conn;
rds_cong_add_conn(conn);
rds_conn_count++;
+ atomic_inc(&conn->c_trans->t_conn_count);
}
} else {
/* Creating normal conn */
@@ -354,6 +357,7 @@ static struct rds_connection *__rds_conn_create(struct net *net,
hlist_add_head_rcu(&conn->c_hash_node, head);
rds_cong_add_conn(conn);
rds_conn_count++;
+ atomic_inc(&conn->c_trans->t_conn_count);
}
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rds_conn_lock, flags);
@@ -579,6 +583,7 @@ static void rds_conn_destroy_fini(struct kref *kref)
struct rds_connection *conn = container_of(kref, struct rds_connection,
c_refcount);
int npaths = (conn->c_trans->t_mp_capable ? RDS_MPATH_WORKERS : 1);
+ struct rds_transport *trans = conn->c_trans;
unsigned long flags;
int i;
@@ -591,7 +596,51 @@ static void rds_conn_destroy_fini(struct kref *kref)
spin_lock_irqsave(&rds_conn_lock, flags);
rds_conn_count--;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rds_conn_lock, flags);
+
+ /* only after everything the transport module owns has been
+ * freed above may its unload proceed
+ */
+ if (!atomic_dec_return(&trans->t_conn_count))
+ wake_up_all(&rds_conn_freed_waitq);
+}
+
+/* Wait for all of @trans's connections to be freed; the free runs
+ * asynchronously once rds_conn_destroy() has quiesced a connection.
+ * Called on transport module unload, after the transport has destroyed
+ * all of its connections. A connection reference can be held for an
+ * application-controlled time - an unread datagram pins the inc that
+ * carries it, and thus the connection - so the wait is unbounded: the
+ * frees that run after unload call into this module's text (conn_free,
+ * inc_free) and free into its slabs, so proceeding while any remain
+ * would be a use-after-free, not a leak. Warn periodically so a stuck
+ * count is diagnosable, but never stop waiting. This matches the
+ * historical RDS contract that teardown does not discard queued data.
+ */
+void rds_conn_wait_conns_freed(struct rds_transport *trans,
+ void (*resweep)(void))
+{
+ unsigned long warn_interval =
+ msecs_to_jiffies(RDS_CONN_FREE_WARN_INTERVAL_MS);
+ unsigned long warn_at = jiffies + warn_interval;
+
+ while (!wait_event_timeout(rds_conn_freed_waitq,
+ !atomic_read(&trans->t_conn_count),
+ msecs_to_jiffies(RDS_CONN_FREE_POLL_MS))) {
+ /* A transport whose teardown is asynchronous (IB moves a
+ * connection off its device from the shutdown work) gives
+ * us a resweep to destroy what has arrived since.
+ */
+ if (resweep)
+ resweep();
+ if (time_after_eq(jiffies, warn_at)) {
+ pr_warn("RDS/%s: still waiting for %d connection(s) to be freed before unload\n",
+ trans->t_name,
+ atomic_read(&trans->t_conn_count));
+ warn_at = jiffies + warn_interval;
+ }
+ }
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rds_conn_wait_conns_freed);
void rds_conn_get(struct rds_connection *conn)
{
diff --git a/net/rds/ib.c b/net/rds/ib.c
index 9fe3b9951bd3..3fc2de9d19d5 100644
--- a/net/rds/ib.c
+++ b/net/rds/ib.c
@@ -537,7 +537,24 @@ void rds_ib_exit(void)
rds_info_deregister_func(RDS6_INFO_IB_CONNECTIONS, rds6_ib_ic_info);
#endif
rds_ib_unregister_client();
+
+ /* rds_ib_dev_shutdown() only dropped the connections still
+ * attached to a device; each moves itself to ib_nodev_conns
+ * from its shutdown work. Destroy what is there now and keep
+ * sweeping the list while the wait sees connections outstanding,
+ * so a late arrival is destroyed rather than waited on forever.
+ */
rds_ib_destroy_nodev_conns();
+ rds_conn_wait_conns_freed(&rds_ib_transport,
+ rds_ib_destroy_nodev_conns);
+
+ /* Tearing down the last connection may have dropped the final
+ * reference on a device, deferring rds_ib_dev_free() to rds_wq.
+ * Drain it before the module goes away; it queues nothing
+ * further on rds_wq.
+ */
+ flush_workqueue(rds_wq);
+
rds_ib_sysctl_exit();
rds_ib_recv_exit();
rds_trans_unregister(&rds_ib_transport);
diff --git a/net/rds/loop.c b/net/rds/loop.c
index e6b0750bbeda..fd774f8080d0 100644
--- a/net/rds/loop.c
+++ b/net/rds/loop.c
@@ -195,6 +195,8 @@ void rds_loop_exit(void)
WARN_ON(lc->conn->c_passive);
rds_conn_destroy(lc->conn);
}
+
+ rds_conn_wait_conns_freed(&rds_loop_transport, NULL);
}
static void rds_loop_kill_conns(struct net *net)
diff --git a/net/rds/rds.h b/net/rds/rds.h
index 49629108c22a..8a969444e698 100644
--- a/net/rds/rds.h
+++ b/net/rds/rds.h
@@ -557,6 +557,12 @@ struct rds_transport {
unsigned int t_prefer_loopback:1,
t_mp_capable:1;
unsigned int t_type;
+ /* Connections of this transport not yet freed; freeing runs
+ * asynchronously once rds_conn_destroy() has quiesced a
+ * connection, so transport module unload has to wait for this
+ * to reach zero (rds_conn_wait_conns_freed()).
+ */
+ atomic_t t_conn_count;
int (*laddr_check)(struct net *net, const struct in6_addr *addr,
__u32 scope_id);
@@ -834,6 +840,13 @@ void rds_conn_shutdown(struct rds_conn_path *cpath);
void rds_conn_destroy(struct rds_connection *conn);
void rds_conn_get(struct rds_connection *conn);
void rds_conn_put(struct rds_connection *conn);
+/* transport unload waits for its connections to be freed, polling at
+ * the first interval and warning at the second
+ */
+#define RDS_CONN_FREE_POLL_MS 100
+#define RDS_CONN_FREE_WARN_INTERVAL_MS 10000
+void rds_conn_wait_conns_freed(struct rds_transport *trans,
+ void (*resweep)(void));
void rds_conn_drop(struct rds_connection *conn);
void rds_conn_path_drop(struct rds_conn_path *cpath, bool destroy);
void rds_conn_connect_if_down(struct rds_connection *conn);
diff --git a/net/rds/tcp.c b/net/rds/tcp.c
index 774a71f88d37..826e4629e4ee 100644
--- a/net/rds/tcp.c
+++ b/net/rds/tcp.c
@@ -805,6 +805,7 @@ static void rds_tcp_exit(void)
#endif
unregister_pernet_device(&rds_tcp_net_ops);
rds_tcp_destroy_conns();
+ rds_conn_wait_conns_freed(&rds_tcp_transport, NULL);
rds_trans_unregister(&rds_tcp_transport);
rds_tcp_recv_exit();
kmem_cache_destroy(rds_tcp_conn_slab);
--
2.25.1
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From: Allison Henderson @ 2026-09-12 3:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev, linux-rdma, pabeni, edumazet, kuba, horms; +Cc: achender, nicoyip.dev
The transport teardown helpers - rds_tcp_destroy_conns(),
rds_tcp_kill_sock(), rds_ib_destroy_nodev_conns(), rds_loop_exit() and
rds_loop_kill_conns() - gather the per-connection transport nodes onto
a list head on their own stack and call rds_conn_destroy() for each.
The node is unlinked much later, by the transport's conn_free():
rds_tcp_conn_free() and rds_loop_conn_free() list_del() it, and
rds_ib_conn_free() does so unconditionally.
That was fine while rds_conn_destroy() freed the connection before it
returned. Once the free is governed by the connection's reference
count, a holder that outlives the teardown loop - a socket's cached
rs_conn, an inc parked on a receive queue - defers conn_free() until
after the helper has returned, and the list_del() then writes the
neighbours' pointers into a stack frame that no longer exists.
Unlink each node under the transport lock right before its
rds_conn_destroy() instead, so that nothing is left on the stack list
for a later free to touch. TCP marks the node detached, as
rds_tcp_kill_sock() already does for the secondary paths of a
multipath connection; IB and loopback use list_del_init() and have
their conn_free() skip a node that is already empty. The tmp_list
gathering itself is unchanged: it still exists so that
rds_conn_destroy() is not called with the transport lock held.
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>
---
net/rds/ib_cm.c | 4 +++-
net/rds/ib_rdma.c | 12 +++++++++++-
net/rds/loop.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
net/rds/tcp.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
4 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/rds/ib_cm.c b/net/rds/ib_cm.c
index 4feb0edc360c..de5759c50b89 100644
--- a/net/rds/ib_cm.c
+++ b/net/rds/ib_cm.c
@@ -1282,7 +1282,9 @@ void rds_ib_conn_free(void *arg)
lock_ptr = ic->rds_ibdev ? &ic->rds_ibdev->spinlock : &ib_nodev_conns_lock;
spin_lock_irq(lock_ptr);
- list_del(&ic->ib_node);
+ /* already unlinked if a transport teardown gathered us first */
+ if (!list_empty(&ic->ib_node))
+ list_del(&ic->ib_node);
spin_unlock_irq(lock_ptr);
rds_ib_recv_free_caches(ic);
diff --git a/net/rds/ib_rdma.c b/net/rds/ib_rdma.c
index db7e92e7bd29..b30f2a371587 100644
--- a/net/rds/ib_rdma.c
+++ b/net/rds/ib_rdma.c
@@ -168,8 +168,18 @@ void rds_ib_destroy_nodev_conns(void)
list_splice(&ib_nodev_conns, &tmp_list);
spin_unlock_irq(&ib_nodev_conns_lock);
- list_for_each_entry_safe(ic, _ic, &tmp_list, ib_node)
+ /* rds_conn_destroy() can return before the connection is freed,
+ * and it is the free - rds_ib_conn_free() - that unlinks ib_node.
+ * tmp_list lives on this stack frame, so unlink each node before
+ * its destroy; the free then finds it empty and leaves it alone.
+ */
+ list_for_each_entry_safe(ic, _ic, &tmp_list, ib_node) {
+ spin_lock_irq(&ib_nodev_conns_lock);
+ list_del_init(&ic->ib_node);
+ spin_unlock_irq(&ib_nodev_conns_lock);
+
rds_conn_destroy(ic->conn);
+ }
}
void rds_ib_get_mr_info(struct rds_ib_device *rds_ibdev, struct rds_info_rdma_connection *iinfo)
diff --git a/net/rds/loop.c b/net/rds/loop.c
index fd774f8080d0..93be7832b11d 100644
--- a/net/rds/loop.c
+++ b/net/rds/loop.c
@@ -156,6 +156,28 @@ static int rds_loop_conn_alloc(struct rds_connection *conn, gfp_t gfp)
return 0;
}
+/* Destroy the connections whose nodes were gathered on @tmp_list.
+ *
+ * rds_conn_destroy() can return before the connection is freed, and
+ * it is the free - rds_loop_conn_free() - that unlinks loop_node.
+ * @tmp_list lives on the caller's stack, so unlink each node before
+ * its destroy; the free then finds it empty and leaves it alone.
+ */
+static void rds_loop_destroy_gathered_conns(struct list_head *tmp_list)
+{
+ struct rds_loop_connection *lc, *_lc;
+
+ list_for_each_entry_safe(lc, _lc, tmp_list, loop_node) {
+ WARN_ON(lc->conn->c_passive);
+
+ spin_lock_irq(&loop_conns_lock);
+ list_del_init(&lc->loop_node);
+ spin_unlock_irq(&loop_conns_lock);
+
+ rds_conn_destroy(lc->conn);
+ }
+}
+
static void rds_loop_conn_free(void *arg)
{
struct rds_loop_connection *lc = arg;
@@ -163,7 +185,9 @@ static void rds_loop_conn_free(void *arg)
rdsdebug("lc %p\n", lc);
spin_lock_irqsave(&loop_conns_lock, flags);
- list_del(&lc->loop_node);
+ /* already unlinked if a transport teardown gathered us first */
+ if (!list_empty(&lc->loop_node))
+ list_del(&lc->loop_node);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&loop_conns_lock, flags);
kfree(lc);
}
@@ -180,7 +204,6 @@ static void rds_loop_conn_path_shutdown(struct rds_conn_path *cp)
void rds_loop_exit(void)
{
- struct rds_loop_connection *lc, *_lc;
LIST_HEAD(tmp_list);
rds_loop_set_unloading();
@@ -191,10 +214,7 @@ void rds_loop_exit(void)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&loop_conns);
spin_unlock_irq(&loop_conns_lock);
- list_for_each_entry_safe(lc, _lc, &tmp_list, loop_node) {
- WARN_ON(lc->conn->c_passive);
- rds_conn_destroy(lc->conn);
- }
+ rds_loop_destroy_gathered_conns(&tmp_list);
rds_conn_wait_conns_freed(&rds_loop_transport, NULL);
}
@@ -214,10 +234,7 @@ static void rds_loop_kill_conns(struct net *net)
}
spin_unlock_irq(&loop_conns_lock);
- list_for_each_entry_safe(lc, _lc, &tmp_list, loop_node) {
- WARN_ON(lc->conn->c_passive);
- rds_conn_destroy(lc->conn);
- }
+ rds_loop_destroy_gathered_conns(&tmp_list);
}
static void __net_exit rds_loop_exit_net(struct net *net)
diff --git a/net/rds/tcp.c b/net/rds/tcp.c
index 826e4629e4ee..a71d6a4f0939 100644
--- a/net/rds/tcp.c
+++ b/net/rds/tcp.c
@@ -502,6 +502,28 @@ static bool rds_tcp_is_unloading(struct rds_connection *conn)
return atomic_read(&rds_tcp_unloading) != 0;
}
+/* Destroy the connections whose nodes were gathered on @tmp_list.
+ *
+ * rds_conn_destroy() can return before the connection is freed, and
+ * it is the free - rds_tcp_conn_free() - that unlinks t_tcp_node.
+ * Since @tmp_list lives on the caller's stack, unlink each node here
+ * and mark it detached before its destroy, so that a free that runs
+ * after the caller has returned does not write into a dead frame.
+ */
+static void rds_tcp_destroy_gathered_conns(struct list_head *tmp_list)
+{
+ struct rds_tcp_connection *tc, *_tc;
+
+ list_for_each_entry_safe(tc, _tc, tmp_list, t_tcp_node) {
+ spin_lock_irq(&rds_tcp_conn_lock);
+ list_del_init(&tc->t_tcp_node);
+ tc->t_tcp_node_detached = true;
+ spin_unlock_irq(&rds_tcp_conn_lock);
+
+ rds_conn_destroy(tc->t_cpath->cp_conn);
+ }
+}
+
static void rds_tcp_destroy_conns(void)
{
struct rds_tcp_connection *tc, *_tc;
@@ -515,8 +537,7 @@ static void rds_tcp_destroy_conns(void)
}
spin_unlock_irq(&rds_tcp_conn_lock);
- list_for_each_entry_safe(tc, _tc, &tmp_list, t_tcp_node)
- rds_conn_destroy(tc->t_cpath->cp_conn);
+ rds_tcp_destroy_gathered_conns(&tmp_list);
}
static void rds_tcp_exit(void);
@@ -698,8 +719,7 @@ static void rds_tcp_kill_sock(struct net *net)
}
}
spin_unlock_irq(&rds_tcp_conn_lock);
- list_for_each_entry_safe(tc, _tc, &tmp_list, t_tcp_node)
- rds_conn_destroy(tc->t_cpath->cp_conn);
+ rds_tcp_destroy_gathered_conns(&tmp_list);
}
static void __net_exit rds_tcp_exit_net(struct net *net)
--
2.25.1
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* [PATCH net-next v2 6/9] net/rds: hold connection references in lookup, sockets and c_passive
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2026-09-12 3:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 7/9] net/rds: pin the connection across RDMA-CM event handling Allison Henderson
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8 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Allison Henderson @ 2026-09-12 3:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev, linux-rdma, pabeni, edumazet, kuba, horms; +Cc: achender, nicoyip.dev
From: Sharath Srinivasan <sharath.srinivasan@oracle.com>
Hand out real references everywhere a struct rds_connection pointer
previously escaped bare:
- rds_conn_lookup() takes a reference on the connection it returns
(kref_get_unless_zero(), so that it only ever hands out a live
reference), and
__rds_conn_create() returns the connection with a reference held
for the caller on every path: lookup hit, fresh creation, lost
creation race, and the passive-loopback lookup, which now also
holds the parent while it dereferences parent->c_passive.
- The rs->rs_conn sendmsg cache owns a reference, which is dropped
when the cache is replaced or the socket is released.
rds_sendmsg() itself holds a reference for the duration of the
call, during which reads and updates of rs_conn are serialized by
rs_lock. So neither a concurrent rds_conn_destroy() nor another
sender replacing the cache can free the connection under a sender.
The connection may still be destroyed while a send is in flight -
when its device is removed or its netns is torn down - but it is
only quiesced; the free is held off by the sender's reference. A
cached connection whose destruction has begun is no longer reused.
Instead, sendmsg drops it and looks up or creates a live one, so a
socket cannot get stuck returning -EAGAIN forever against a
quiesced connection. rds_ioctl(SIOCRDSSETTOS) tests rs_conn under
the same lock; it used the unrelated global rds_sock_lock before,
which also let a racing sendmsg cache a connection whose c_tos
disagrees with the rs_tos being set.
- parent->c_passive owns a reference, dropped when the parent is
destroyed. The pointer is read under rcu_read_lock() and written
under rds_conn_lock, so it is RCU-annotated and accessed through
rcu_dereference()/rcu_assign_pointer(). A passive connection whose
own destroy has begun is neither handed out nor left dangling in
the parent: __rds_conn_create() refuses it, and the child's destroy
clears the parent's pointer and drops that reference itself, so a
quiesced passive conn cannot be revived by a later connect request.
Serializing the rs_conn cache under rs_lock also resolves a
syzbot-reported KCSAN data race between concurrent rds_sendmsg()
calls on the same socket, each installing the connection it created
into rs->rs_conn with a plain store:
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in rds_sendmsg / rds_sendmsg
write to 0xffff888101dec818 of 8 bytes by task 30904 on cpu 0:
rds_sendmsg+0xc1f/0x1580 net/rds/send.c:1332
write to 0xffff888101dec818 of 8 bytes by task 30905 on cpu 1:
rds_sendmsg+0xc1f/0x1580 net/rds/send.c:1332
value changed: 0x0000000000000000 -> 0xffff88811b61faf0
cm_id->context still carries no reference of its own after this
patch; the following patch pins the connection for the duration of
the CM event handler.
This is not a stable candidate on its own: it depends on the
connection reference counting introduced by the preceding patches,
and the race it closes needs a connection destroyed under a live
socket, which takes netns teardown, module unload or device removal.
Based on the Oracle UEK commits "net/rds: Add krefs to
struct rds_connection" and "net/rds: rds_sendmsg must
use rs_conn only when not being destroyed".
Reported-by: syzbot+879c1877016972360186@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=879c1877016972360186
Signed-off-by: Sharath Srinivasan <sharath.srinivasan@oracle.com>
[achender: substantial reimplementation for net-next: upstream has no
conn reaper, per-conn workers hold no references (destroy cancels
them synchronously before the final put), and the sendmsg cache is
serialized with rs_lock instead of UEK's socket flag; rewrite commit
message]
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>
---
net/rds/af_rds.c | 20 +++++--
net/rds/connection.c | 125 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
net/rds/ib_cm.c | 8 ++-
net/rds/loop.c | 2 +-
net/rds/rds.h | 2 +-
net/rds/send.c | 42 +++++++++++++--
net/rds/tcp_listen.c | 5 +-
7 files changed, 187 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/rds/af_rds.c b/net/rds/af_rds.c
index d5defe9172e3..63baac8aeb2d 100644
--- a/net/rds/af_rds.c
+++ b/net/rds/af_rds.c
@@ -80,6 +80,14 @@ static int rds_release(struct socket *sock)
rds_notify_queue_get(rs, NULL);
rds_notify_msg_zcopy_purge(&rs->rs_zcookie_queue);
+ /* drop the cached connection reference; no sendmsg can race
+ * with us here, the socket is going away
+ */
+ if (rs->rs_conn) {
+ rds_conn_put(rs->rs_conn);
+ rs->rs_conn = NULL;
+ }
+
spin_lock_bh(&rds_sock_lock);
list_del_init(&rs->rs_item);
spin_unlock_bh(&rds_sock_lock);
@@ -255,6 +263,7 @@ static int rds_ioctl(struct socket *sock, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
{
struct rds_sock *rs = rds_sk_to_rs(sock->sk);
rds_tos_t utos, tos = 0;
+ unsigned long flags;
switch (cmd) {
case SIOCRDSSETTOS:
@@ -267,13 +276,18 @@ static int rds_ioctl(struct socket *sock, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
else
return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
- spin_lock_bh(&rds_sock_lock);
+ /* rs_conn is serialized by rs_lock (see rds_sendmsg());
+ * hold it across the "no connection yet" check and the
+ * rs_tos store so a racing sendmsg cannot cache a conn
+ * whose c_tos then disagrees with rs_tos.
+ */
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&rs->rs_lock, flags);
if (rs->rs_tos || rs->rs_conn) {
- spin_unlock_bh(&rds_sock_lock);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rs->rs_lock, flags);
return -EINVAL;
}
rs->rs_tos = tos;
- spin_unlock_bh(&rds_sock_lock);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rs->rs_lock, flags);
break;
case SIOCRDSGETTOS:
spin_lock_bh(&rds_sock_lock);
diff --git a/net/rds/connection.c b/net/rds/connection.c
index 5848dd295911..1ec141d6faa3 100644
--- a/net/rds/connection.c
+++ b/net/rds/connection.c
@@ -81,7 +81,18 @@ static struct hlist_head *rds_conn_bucket(const struct in6_addr *laddr,
var |= RDS_INFO_CONNECTION_FLAG_##suffix; \
} while (0)
-/* rcu read lock must be held or the connection spinlock */
+/* rcu read lock must be held or the connection spinlock.
+ * On success a reference is taken on the returned connection; the
+ * caller must drop it with rds_conn_put().
+ */
+/* c_passive is written under rds_conn_lock and read under RCU */
+static struct rds_connection *
+rds_conn_passive_locked(struct rds_connection *conn)
+{
+ return rcu_dereference_protected(conn->c_passive,
+ lockdep_is_held(&rds_conn_lock));
+}
+
static struct rds_connection *rds_conn_lookup(struct net *net,
struct hlist_head *head,
const struct in6_addr *laddr,
@@ -98,6 +109,17 @@ static struct rds_connection *rds_conn_lookup(struct net *net,
conn->c_tos == tos &&
net == rds_conn_net(conn) &&
conn->c_dev_if == dev_if) {
+ /* Only ever hand out a live reference.
+ * rds_conn_destroy() unhashes under
+ * rds_conn_lock and waits a grace period
+ * before dropping the initial reference, so
+ * an entry this traversal reaches still holds
+ * at least that one; the conditional get
+ * documents the contract rather than
+ * papering over a zero-refcount entry.
+ */
+ if (!kref_get_unless_zero(&conn->c_refcount))
+ continue;
ret = conn;
break;
}
@@ -199,7 +221,20 @@ static struct rds_connection *__rds_conn_create(struct net *net,
* We need a second connection object into which we
* can stick the other QP. */
parent = conn;
- conn = parent->c_passive;
+ /* The c_passive pointer holds a reference which is only
+ * dropped one synchronize_rcu() after the pointer is
+ * cleared, so within this RCU section a fetched pointer
+ * is always safe to take a reference on. A passive conn
+ * whose own destroy has begun is not handed out, though:
+ * it is quiesced and about to clear the parent's pointer
+ * itself, and reusing it would re-arm a connection that
+ * nothing will tear down again.
+ */
+ conn = rcu_dereference(parent->c_passive);
+ if (conn && READ_ONCE(conn->c_destroy_in_prog))
+ conn = NULL;
+ if (conn)
+ rds_conn_get(conn);
}
rcu_read_unlock();
if (conn)
@@ -318,13 +353,44 @@ static struct rds_connection *__rds_conn_create(struct net *net,
spin_lock_irqsave(&rds_conn_lock, flags);
if (parent) {
/* Creating passive conn */
- if (parent->c_passive) {
+ if (READ_ONCE(parent->c_destroy_in_prog)) {
+ /* The parent's destroy has begun (it sets the
+ * flag and snatches c_passive under this
+ * lock); do not install a new passive conn
+ * that nothing would ever destroy.
+ */
+ trans->conn_free(conn->c_path[0].cp_transport_data);
+ free_cp = conn->c_path;
+ kmem_cache_free(rds_conn_slab, conn);
+ conn = ERR_PTR(-ENETDOWN);
+ } else if (rcu_access_pointer(parent->c_passive)) {
+ struct rds_connection *passive;
+
+ passive = rds_conn_passive_locked(parent);
trans->conn_free(conn->c_path[0].cp_transport_data);
free_cp = conn->c_path;
kmem_cache_free(rds_conn_slab, conn);
- conn = parent->c_passive;
+ if (READ_ONCE(passive->c_destroy_in_prog)) {
+ /* Its destroy will clear the parent's
+ * pointer under this lock shortly; until
+ * then there is no usable passive conn.
+ */
+ conn = ERR_PTR(-ENETDOWN);
+ } else {
+ rds_conn_get(passive);
+ conn = passive;
+ }
} else {
- parent->c_passive = conn;
+ /* The initial reference belongs to whoever
+ * destroys the conn (the transport's conn
+ * lists, as for any other conn). Take one
+ * for the c_passive pointer - dropped when
+ * the parent is destroyed - and one for our
+ * caller.
+ */
+ rds_conn_get(conn); /* c_passive */
+ rds_conn_get(conn); /* caller */
+ rcu_assign_pointer(parent->c_passive, conn);
rds_cong_add_conn(conn);
rds_conn_count++;
atomic_inc(&conn->c_trans->t_conn_count);
@@ -354,6 +420,10 @@ static struct rds_connection *__rds_conn_create(struct net *net,
} else {
conn->c_my_gen_num = rds_gen_num;
conn->c_peer_gen_num = 0;
+ /* the initial reference belongs to whoever
+ * destroys the conn; take one for our caller
+ */
+ rds_conn_get(conn);
hlist_add_head_rcu(&conn->c_hash_node, head);
rds_cong_add_conn(conn);
rds_conn_count++;
@@ -364,6 +434,8 @@ static struct rds_connection *__rds_conn_create(struct net *net,
rcu_read_unlock();
out:
+ if (parent)
+ rds_conn_put(parent);
if (free_cp) {
for (i = 0; i < npaths; i++)
if (free_cp[i].cp_wq != rds_wq)
@@ -666,6 +738,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rds_conn_put);
void rds_conn_destroy(struct rds_connection *conn)
{
int i;
+ struct rds_connection *passive, *parent;
+ struct hlist_head *head;
+ bool was_passive = false;
struct rds_conn_path *cp;
int npaths = (conn->c_trans->t_mp_capable ? RDS_MPATH_WORKERS : 1);
@@ -696,7 +771,38 @@ void rds_conn_destroy(struct rds_connection *conn)
/* Ensure conn will not be scheduled for reconnect */
hlist_del_init_rcu(&conn->c_hash_node);
+
+ /* Snatch c_passive while holding the lock:
+ * __rds_conn_create() dereferences it under rcu_read_lock()
+ * (and refuses to install a new one once c_destroy_in_prog is
+ * set, which it checks under this lock). After the
+ * synchronize_rcu() below no one can pick the pointer up any
+ * more and its reference can be dropped.
+ */
+ passive = rds_conn_passive_locked(conn);
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(conn->c_passive, NULL);
+
+ /* If we are a parent's passive twin, invalidate its pointer to
+ * us as well, so that __rds_conn_create() cannot hand out a
+ * connection whose teardown has begun. The parent is the
+ * hashed connection for our key (a passive conn is never
+ * hashed, and we unhashed ourselves above); it holds its
+ * initial reference for as long as it is hashed, so the lookup
+ * reference dropped below cannot be its last.
+ */
+ head = rds_conn_bucket(&conn->c_laddr, &conn->c_faddr);
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ parent = rds_conn_lookup(rds_conn_net(conn), head, &conn->c_laddr,
+ &conn->c_faddr, conn->c_trans, conn->c_tos,
+ conn->c_dev_if);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ if (parent && rds_conn_passive_locked(parent) == conn) {
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(parent->c_passive, NULL);
+ was_passive = true;
+ }
spin_unlock_irq(&rds_conn_lock);
+ if (parent)
+ rds_conn_put(parent);
synchronize_rcu();
/* shut the connection down */
@@ -713,6 +819,15 @@ void rds_conn_destroy(struct rds_connection *conn)
*/
rds_cong_remove_conn(conn);
+ /* drop the reference our c_passive pointer held, if any, and
+ * the one a parent's c_passive pointer held on us; neither can
+ * be the last, since the initial reference is dropped below
+ */
+ if (passive)
+ rds_conn_put(passive);
+ if (was_passive)
+ rds_conn_put(conn);
+
/* drop the initial reference; the connection is freed from
* rds_conn_destroy_fini() once every holder has dropped theirs
*/
diff --git a/net/rds/ib_cm.c b/net/rds/ib_cm.c
index de5759c50b89..01e4b4be979d 100644
--- a/net/rds/ib_cm.c
+++ b/net/rds/ib_cm.c
@@ -924,8 +924,14 @@ int rds_ib_cm_handle_connect(struct rdma_cm_id *cm_id,
rds_ib_conn_error(conn, "rdma_accept failed\n");
out:
- if (conn)
+ if (conn) {
mutex_unlock(&conn->c_cm_lock);
+ /* The conn stays reachable through cm_id->context
+ * without a reference of its own: connection destroy
+ * shuts the cm_id down before the conn is freed.
+ */
+ rds_conn_put(conn);
+ }
if (err)
rdma_reject(cm_id, &err, sizeof(int),
IB_CM_REJ_CONSUMER_DEFINED);
diff --git a/net/rds/loop.c b/net/rds/loop.c
index 93be7832b11d..42e6b841b42c 100644
--- a/net/rds/loop.c
+++ b/net/rds/loop.c
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ static void rds_loop_destroy_gathered_conns(struct list_head *tmp_list)
struct rds_loop_connection *lc, *_lc;
list_for_each_entry_safe(lc, _lc, tmp_list, loop_node) {
- WARN_ON(lc->conn->c_passive);
+ WARN_ON(rcu_access_pointer(lc->conn->c_passive));
spin_lock_irq(&loop_conns_lock);
list_del_init(&lc->loop_node);
diff --git a/net/rds/rds.h b/net/rds/rds.h
index 8a969444e698..4608615e09e9 100644
--- a/net/rds/rds.h
+++ b/net/rds/rds.h
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ struct rds_connection {
* cancellation from landing on a destroyed workqueue.
*/
bool c_destroy_in_prog;
- struct rds_connection *c_passive;
+ struct rds_connection __rcu *c_passive;
struct rds_transport *c_trans;
struct rds_cong_map *c_lcong;
diff --git a/net/rds/send.c b/net/rds/send.c
index 32c411d10e3e..1ae1f24c24e8 100644
--- a/net/rds/send.c
+++ b/net/rds/send.c
@@ -1159,13 +1159,14 @@ int rds_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t payload_len)
DECLARE_SOCKADDR(struct sockaddr_in *, usin, msg->msg_name);
__be16 dport;
struct rds_message *rm = NULL;
- struct rds_connection *conn;
+ struct rds_connection *conn = NULL;
int ret = 0;
int queued = 0, allocated_mr = 0;
int nonblock = msg->msg_flags & MSG_DONTWAIT;
long timeo = sock_sndtimeo(sk, nonblock);
struct rds_conn_path *cpath;
struct in6_addr daddr;
+ unsigned long flags;
__u32 scope_id = 0;
size_t rdma_payload_len = 0;
bool zcopy = ((msg->msg_flags & MSG_ZEROCOPY) &&
@@ -1340,11 +1341,29 @@ int rds_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t payload_len)
rm->m_daddr = daddr;
/* rds_conn_create has a spinlock that runs with IRQ off.
- * Caching the conn in the socket helps a lot. */
- if (rs->rs_conn && ipv6_addr_equal(&rs->rs_conn->c_faddr, &daddr) &&
- rs->rs_tos == rs->rs_conn->c_tos) {
- conn = rs->rs_conn;
+ * Caching the conn in the socket helps a lot.
+ *
+ * The cached rs_conn holds a connection reference; take one of
+ * our own for the duration of this call (dropped on both exit
+ * paths), so that neither a concurrent sender replacing the
+ * cache nor rds_conn_destroy() can free the connection under
+ * us. A cached connection whose destruction has begun is not
+ * reused: dropping it here lets the next sendmsg look up or
+ * create a live one instead of returning -EAGAIN forever.
+ */
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&rs->rs_lock, flags);
+ conn = rs->rs_conn;
+ if (conn && ipv6_addr_equal(&conn->c_faddr, &daddr) &&
+ rs->rs_tos == conn->c_tos && !rds_destroy_pending(conn)) {
+ rds_conn_get(conn);
} else {
+ conn = NULL;
+ }
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rs->rs_lock, flags);
+
+ if (!conn) {
+ struct rds_connection *old;
+
conn = rds_conn_create_outgoing(sock_net(sock->sk),
&rs->rs_bound_addr, &daddr,
rs->rs_transport, rs->rs_tos,
@@ -1352,9 +1371,17 @@ int rds_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t payload_len)
scope_id);
if (IS_ERR(conn)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(conn);
+ conn = NULL;
goto out;
}
+ /* hand the cache its own reference */
+ rds_conn_get(conn);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&rs->rs_lock, flags);
+ old = rs->rs_conn;
rs->rs_conn = conn;
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rs->rs_lock, flags);
+ if (old)
+ rds_conn_put(old);
}
if (conn->c_trans->t_mp_capable) {
@@ -1474,6 +1501,8 @@ int rds_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t payload_len)
kfree(vct.vec[ind].iov);
kfree(vct.vec);
+ rds_conn_put(conn);
+
return payload_len;
out:
@@ -1481,6 +1510,9 @@ int rds_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t payload_len)
kfree(vct.vec[ind].iov);
kfree(vct.vec);
+ if (conn)
+ rds_conn_put(conn);
+
/* If the user included a RDMA_MAP cmsg, we allocated a MR on the fly.
* If the sendmsg goes through, we keep the MR. If it fails with EAGAIN
* or in any other way, we need to destroy the MR again */
diff --git a/net/rds/tcp_listen.c b/net/rds/tcp_listen.c
index 8a0c54aced5e..dcac10a91a67 100644
--- a/net/rds/tcp_listen.c
+++ b/net/rds/tcp_listen.c
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ int rds_tcp_accept_one(struct rds_tcp_net *rtn)
{
struct socket *listen_sock = rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock;
struct socket *new_sock = NULL;
- struct rds_connection *conn;
+ struct rds_connection *conn = NULL;
int ret;
struct inet_sock *inet;
struct rds_tcp_connection *rs_tcp = NULL;
@@ -229,6 +229,7 @@ int rds_tcp_accept_one(struct rds_tcp_net *rtn)
if (IS_ERR(conn)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(conn);
+ conn = NULL;
goto out;
}
/* An incoming SYN request came in, and TCP just accepted it.
@@ -347,6 +348,8 @@ int rds_tcp_accept_one(struct rds_tcp_net *rtn)
mutex_unlock(&rs_tcp->t_conn_path_lock);
if (new_sock)
sock_release(new_sock);
+ if (conn)
+ rds_conn_put(conn);
mutex_unlock(&rtn->rds_tcp_accept_lock);
--
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From: Allison Henderson @ 2026-09-12 3:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev, linux-rdma, pabeni, edumazet, kuba, horms; +Cc: achender, nicoyip.dev
rds_rdma_cm_event_handler_cmn() picks the connection up from
cm_id->context, which carries no reference, and holds c_cm_lock - a
mutex that lives in the connection's path array - across the
transport callbacks. Now that a connection is freed by its last
reference rather than by rds_conn_destroy() itself, a callback that
drops the last reference other than the handler's implicit one leaves
the final mutex_unlock() running on freed memory.
Take a reference for the duration of the handler, and ignore the event
if the connection is already being freed: its cm_id teardown is what
stops event delivery, so an event that still arrives belongs to a
connection whose shutdown has run and whose memory is on its way out.
rds_ib_cm_handle_connect() has the mirror-image hole: a connection
whose destroy has already quiesced it sits in RDS_CONN_DOWN with no
cm_id, which is exactly the state the DOWN -> CONNECTING transition
claims. A connect request arriving then would install a new cm_id
and QP on a connection that is only waiting for its last reference to
go away, and nothing would tear them down again. Re-check
rds_destroy_pending() under c_cm_lock and reject the request instead.
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>
---
net/rds/ib_cm.c | 7 +++++++
net/rds/rdma_transport.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
net/rds/rds.h | 5 +++++
3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/rds/ib_cm.c b/net/rds/ib_cm.c
index 01e4b4be979d..323c1eee2777 100644
--- a/net/rds/ib_cm.c
+++ b/net/rds/ib_cm.c
@@ -874,6 +874,13 @@ int rds_ib_cm_handle_connect(struct rdma_cm_id *cm_id,
* see the comment above rds_queue_reconnect()
*/
mutex_lock(&conn->c_cm_lock);
+ /* A destroy that has already quiesced this conn leaves it in
+ * RDS_CONN_DOWN with no cm_id, exactly what the transition
+ * below would happily claim; nothing would tear the new cm_id
+ * and QP down again before the conn is freed. Reject instead.
+ */
+ if (rds_destroy_pending(conn))
+ goto out;
if (!rds_conn_transition(conn, RDS_CONN_DOWN, RDS_CONN_CONNECTING)) {
if (rds_conn_state(conn) == RDS_CONN_UP) {
rdsdebug("incoming connect while connecting\n");
diff --git a/net/rds/rdma_transport.c b/net/rds/rdma_transport.c
index b15cf316b23a..584e9867810f 100644
--- a/net/rds/rdma_transport.c
+++ b/net/rds/rdma_transport.c
@@ -63,6 +63,18 @@ static int rds_rdma_cm_event_handler_cmn(struct rdma_cm_id *cm_id,
if (cm_id->device->node_type == RDMA_NODE_IB_CA)
trans = &rds_ib_transport;
+ /* cm_id->context carries no reference of its own. Pin the
+ * connection for the duration of the handler: what the callbacks
+ * below do may drop the last reference other than ours, and the
+ * mutex released at out: lives in the connection's path array.
+ * A connection already being freed gets no events handled.
+ */
+ if (conn && !rds_conn_get_unless_zero(conn)) {
+ rdsdebug("conn %p id %p is being freed, ignoring event\n",
+ conn, cm_id);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
/* Prevent shutdown from tearing down the connection
* while we're executing. */
if (conn) {
@@ -171,8 +183,10 @@ static int rds_rdma_cm_event_handler_cmn(struct rdma_cm_id *cm_id,
}
out:
- if (conn)
+ if (conn) {
mutex_unlock(&conn->c_cm_lock);
+ rds_conn_put(conn);
+ }
rdsdebug("id %p event %u (%s) handling ret %d\n", cm_id, event->event,
rdma_event_msg(event->event), ret);
diff --git a/net/rds/rds.h b/net/rds/rds.h
index 4608615e09e9..06d48c2821ef 100644
--- a/net/rds/rds.h
+++ b/net/rds/rds.h
@@ -840,6 +840,11 @@ void rds_conn_shutdown(struct rds_conn_path *cpath);
void rds_conn_destroy(struct rds_connection *conn);
void rds_conn_get(struct rds_connection *conn);
void rds_conn_put(struct rds_connection *conn);
+/* take a reference unless the connection is already being freed */
+static inline bool rds_conn_get_unless_zero(struct rds_connection *conn)
+{
+ return kref_get_unless_zero(&conn->c_refcount);
+}
/* transport unload waits for its connections to be freed, polling at
* the first interval and warning at the second
*/
--
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From: Allison Henderson @ 2026-09-12 3:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev, linux-rdma, pabeni, edumazet, kuba, horms; +Cc: achender, nicoyip.dev
The previous patch gave each transport its own connection count in
t_conn_count, incremented and decremented at exactly the points where
the global rds_conn_count is. That leaves rds_conn_count with a
single remaining consumer: the seed of the per-path workqueue names
in __rds_conn_create().
Switch the name seed to t_conn_count, as UEK does, and remove
rds_conn_count. The numbering becomes per-transport instead of
global, so connections of different transports can now receive the
same seed; workqueue names carry no uniqueness requirement, and the
seed was already reused as the count rose and fell. Removing the
counter also removes the rds_conn_lock round-trip that
rds_conn_destroy_fini() took solely to decrement it, leaving the
free path lock-free.
Based on the Oracle UEK commit "net/rds: Each RDS transport
should keep its own connection count".
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>
---
net/rds/connection.c | 13 +++----------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/rds/connection.c b/net/rds/connection.c
index 1ec141d6faa3..11813f93961d 100644
--- a/net/rds/connection.c
+++ b/net/rds/connection.c
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@
/* converting this to RCU is a chore for another day.. */
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(rds_conn_lock);
-static unsigned long rds_conn_count;
/* woken whenever a transport's t_conn_count drops to zero */
static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(rds_conn_freed_waitq);
static struct hlist_head rds_conn_hash[RDS_CONNECTION_HASH_ENTRIES];
@@ -316,12 +315,13 @@ static struct rds_connection *__rds_conn_create(struct net *net,
init_waitqueue_head(&conn->c_hs_waitq);
for (i = 0; i < npaths; i++) {
+ int seq = atomic_read(&trans->t_conn_count);
+
__rds_conn_path_init(conn, &conn->c_path[i],
is_outgoing);
conn->c_path[i].cp_index = i;
conn->c_path[i].cp_wq =
- alloc_ordered_workqueue("krds_cp_wq#%lu/%d", 0,
- rds_conn_count, i);
+ alloc_ordered_workqueue("krds_cp_wq#%d/%d", 0, seq, i);
if (!conn->c_path[i].cp_wq)
conn->c_path[i].cp_wq = rds_wq;
}
@@ -392,7 +392,6 @@ static struct rds_connection *__rds_conn_create(struct net *net,
rds_conn_get(conn); /* caller */
rcu_assign_pointer(parent->c_passive, conn);
rds_cong_add_conn(conn);
- rds_conn_count++;
atomic_inc(&conn->c_trans->t_conn_count);
}
} else {
@@ -426,7 +425,6 @@ static struct rds_connection *__rds_conn_create(struct net *net,
rds_conn_get(conn);
hlist_add_head_rcu(&conn->c_hash_node, head);
rds_cong_add_conn(conn);
- rds_conn_count++;
atomic_inc(&conn->c_trans->t_conn_count);
}
}
@@ -656,7 +654,6 @@ static void rds_conn_destroy_fini(struct kref *kref)
c_refcount);
int npaths = (conn->c_trans->t_mp_capable ? RDS_MPATH_WORKERS : 1);
struct rds_transport *trans = conn->c_trans;
- unsigned long flags;
int i;
for (i = 0; i < npaths; i++)
@@ -665,10 +662,6 @@ static void rds_conn_destroy_fini(struct kref *kref)
kfree(conn->c_path);
kmem_cache_free(rds_conn_slab, conn);
- spin_lock_irqsave(&rds_conn_lock, flags);
- rds_conn_count--;
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rds_conn_lock, flags);
-
/* only after everything the transport module owns has been
* freed above may its unload proceed
*/
--
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From: Allison Henderson @ 2026-09-12 3:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev, linux-rdma, pabeni, edumazet, kuba, horms; +Cc: achender, nicoyip.dev
From: Sharath Srinivasan <sharath.srinivasan@oracle.com>
struct rds_incoming->i_conn stores a pointer to the connection a message
it belongs to, for both received messages and messages the socket sends.
But without taking a reference, nothing keeps that connection alive.
Embedded as the messages m_inc, an inc routinely outlives the connection
it points at, by sitting in the socket's receive queue until the
application reads it, while the connection is destroyed by device removal,
netns teardown or module unload - and every dereference of i_conn after
that point touches freed memory.
Chengfeng Ye reported one way to reach it, where the socket info
callbacks walk a receive queue after rmmod freed the connections:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rds6_inc_info_copy+0x459/0x530 [rds]
Read of size 1 at addr ffff888106031c50 by task poc/101
Call Trace:
rds6_inc_info_copy+0x459/0x530 [rds]
rds6_sock_inc_info+0x2b9/0x3c0 [rds]
rds_info_getsockopt+0x19d/0x380 [rds]
do_sock_getsockopt+0x2ac/0x480
__sys_getsockopt+0x128/0x210
Freed by task 102:
kmem_cache_free+0x1b5/0x3d0
rds_conn_destroy+0x484/0x600 [rds]
rds_loop_exit_net+0x32/0x50 [rds]
unregister_pernet_device+0x2c/0x50
rds_conn_exit+0x13/0xa0 [rds]
rds_exit+0x1a/0xc40 [rds]
__do_sys_delete_module+0x30a/0x4d0
Closing the socket gets there too, with no reader of i_conn other than
RDS itself: freeing an IB inc dereferences i_conn to hand the inc and
its fragments back to the connection's recycle cache, so draining the
receive queue of a socket whose connection is gone crashes in the
transport:
panic
...
rds_ib_recv_cache_put (net/rds/ib_recv.c:703)
rds_ib_inc_free (net/rds/ib_recv.c:207)
rds_clear_recv_queue (net/rds/recv.c:909)
rds_release (net/rds/af_rds.c:212)
__sock_release (net/socket.c:649)
sock_close (net/socket.c:1336)
with the freed connection confirmed by its now-zero reference count:
-trace[9]["inc"].i_conn.c_refcount
(struct kref){
.refcount = (refcount_t){
.refs = (atomic_t){
.counter = (int)0,
},
},
}
Now that connections are reference counted, make every holder of i_conn
own a reference. The pointer is assigned in six places - rds_inc_init()
and rds_inc_path_init() for received messages, rds_recv_incoming() when
it re-points an inc at the connection it arrived on, and
rds_send_queue_rm(), rds_send_probe() and the congestion-map path of
rds_send_xmit() for m_inc - and each of them now takes a reference. The
references are dropped from rds_inc_put() and rds_message_put(), which
are the points where the last user of the pointer goes away.
rds_recv_incoming() takes the new reference before dropping the old one,
so re-pointing an inc at the connection it already refers to cannot free
it. rds_inc_put() drops its reference through a local copy, since
inc_free() may free the memory the inc lives in.
This keeps a connection allocated for as long as messages that arrived
over it are queued on sockets, which is longer than before. What
lingers is the quiesced connection, its per-path workqueues (idle,
every work cancelled) and the transport's per-connection state,
including an IB connection's receive caches: rds_conn_destroy() still
quiesces the connection synchronously, so nothing runs on any of it.
It also means the transport cannot unload while such a datagram is
unread - rds_conn_wait_conns_freed() waits, warning every ten seconds,
until the application reads or closes. That is the intended
behaviour: teardown does not discard queued data, and unloading over a
live reference would be a use-after-free in the transport's text.
The final rds_conn_put() runs the free path, which destroys the per-path
workqueues and therefore may sleep, so the last reference has to be
dropped from process context. It always is. While a connection is
alive its hash-table entry holds the initial reference, so a put from a
completion handler or tasklet can never be the last one; that reference
is dropped by rds_conn_destroy(), from process context, after the
connection has been quiesced and its queued messages freed. The
references that survive that point are the ones held by incs on socket
receive queues and by messages on socket send queues, and those are
dropped from recvmsg and from close - process context in both cases.
This is not a stable candidate: reaching the use-after-free requires
freeing a connection out from under a live socket, which needs
CAP_SYS_MODULE, netns teardown or physical device removal, and the fix
depends on the connection reference counting introduced earlier in this
series.
Based on the Oracle UEK commit "net/rds: fix crash by
expanding kref coverage to rds_incoming.i_conn".
Reported-by: Chengfeng Ye <nicoyip.dev@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260720184955.3008978-1-nicoyip.dev@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Sharath Srinivasan <sharath.srinivasan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Samasth Norway Ananda <samasth.norway.ananda@oracle.com>
[achender: port to net-next: same six assignment sites, but upstream
splits the message free across rds_message_unpin_worker(), so the
m_inc reference is dropped from a shared rds_message_free() helper
that both paths call; rds_recv_incoming() takes the new reference
before dropping the old; rewrite commit message]
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>
---
net/rds/message.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
net/rds/recv.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
net/rds/send.c | 4 ++++
3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/rds/message.c b/net/rds/message.c
index f25f2592586f..29e95028e61e 100644
--- a/net/rds/message.c
+++ b/net/rds/message.c
@@ -182,6 +182,18 @@ static void rds_message_purge(struct rds_message *rm)
kref_put(&rm->atomic.op_rdma_mr->r_kref, __rds_put_mr_final);
}
+static void rds_message_free(struct rds_message *rm)
+{
+ /* get in rds_send_queue_rm(), rds_send_probe() or the congestion
+ * map path of rds_send_xmit(). Messages that were never queued on
+ * a connection have no reference to drop.
+ */
+ if (rm->m_inc.i_conn)
+ rds_conn_put(rm->m_inc.i_conn);
+
+ kfree(rm);
+}
+
static void rds_message_unpin_worker(struct work_struct *work)
{
struct rds_message *rm = container_of(work, struct rds_message,
@@ -192,7 +204,7 @@ static void rds_message_unpin_worker(struct work_struct *work)
if (rm->atomic.op_unpin_deferred)
rds_atomic_op_unpin_page(&rm->atomic);
- kfree(rm);
+ rds_message_free(rm);
}
void rds_message_put(struct rds_message *rm)
@@ -217,7 +229,7 @@ void rds_message_put(struct rds_message *rm)
return;
}
- kfree(rm);
+ rds_message_free(rm);
}
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rds_message_put);
diff --git a/net/rds/recv.c b/net/rds/recv.c
index 6204e577a90a..b031c0b43af8 100644
--- a/net/rds/recv.c
+++ b/net/rds/recv.c
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ void rds_inc_init(struct rds_incoming *inc, struct rds_connection *conn,
{
refcount_set(&inc->i_refcount, 1);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inc->i_item);
+ rds_conn_get(conn); /* put in rds_inc_put() */
inc->i_conn = conn;
inc->i_conn_path = NULL;
inc->i_saddr = *saddr;
@@ -61,6 +62,7 @@ void rds_inc_path_init(struct rds_incoming *inc, struct rds_conn_path *cp,
{
refcount_set(&inc->i_refcount, 1);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inc->i_item);
+ rds_conn_get(cp->cp_conn); /* put in rds_inc_put() */
inc->i_conn = cp->cp_conn;
inc->i_conn_path = cp;
inc->i_saddr = *saddr;
@@ -81,9 +83,19 @@ void rds_inc_put(struct rds_incoming *inc)
{
rdsdebug("put inc %p ref %d\n", inc, refcount_read(&inc->i_refcount));
if (refcount_dec_and_test(&inc->i_refcount)) {
+ struct rds_connection *conn = inc->i_conn;
+
BUG_ON(!list_empty(&inc->i_item));
- inc->i_conn->c_trans->inc_free(inc);
+ /* inc_free() can free the memory @inc lives in, so the
+ * connection reference has to be dropped through the
+ * copy taken above.
+ */
+ conn->c_trans->inc_free(inc);
+ /* get in rds_inc_init(), rds_inc_path_init() or
+ * rds_recv_incoming()
+ */
+ rds_conn_put(conn);
}
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rds_inc_put);
@@ -325,6 +337,13 @@ void rds_recv_incoming(struct rds_connection *conn, struct in6_addr *saddr,
unsigned long flags;
struct rds_conn_path *cp;
+ /* every caller initialized @inc with rds_inc_init() or
+ * rds_inc_path_init() first, so i_conn already holds a reference.
+ * Take the new one before dropping the old, so that re-pointing an
+ * inc at the connection it already refers to cannot free it.
+ */
+ rds_conn_get(conn);
+ rds_conn_put(inc->i_conn);
inc->i_conn = conn;
inc->i_rx_jiffies = jiffies;
if (conn->c_trans->t_mp_capable)
diff --git a/net/rds/send.c b/net/rds/send.c
index 1ae1f24c24e8..dbda24470d21 100644
--- a/net/rds/send.c
+++ b/net/rds/send.c
@@ -290,6 +290,8 @@ int rds_send_xmit(struct rds_conn_path *cp)
}
rm->data.op_active = 1;
rm->m_inc.i_conn_path = cp;
+ /* put in rds_message_put() */
+ rds_conn_get(cp->cp_conn);
rm->m_inc.i_conn = cp->cp_conn;
cp->cp_xmit_rm = rm;
@@ -947,6 +949,7 @@ static int rds_send_queue_rm(struct rds_sock *rs, struct rds_connection *conn,
/* The code ordering is a little weird, but we're
trying to minimize the time we hold c_lock */
rds_message_populate_header(&rm->m_inc.i_hdr, sport, dport, 0);
+ rds_conn_get(conn); /* put in rds_message_put() */
rm->m_inc.i_conn = conn;
rm->m_inc.i_conn_path = cp;
rds_message_addref(rm);
@@ -1559,6 +1562,7 @@ rds_send_probe(struct rds_conn_path *cp, __be16 sport,
list_add_tail(&rm->m_conn_item, &cp->cp_send_queue);
set_bit(RDS_MSG_ON_CONN, &rm->m_flags);
rds_message_addref(rm);
+ rds_conn_get(cp->cp_conn); /* put in rds_message_put() */
rm->m_inc.i_conn = cp->cp_conn;
rm->m_inc.i_conn_path = cp;
--
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2026-09-12 3:50 [PATCH net-next v2 0/9] net/rds: make connection lifetime reference-counted Allison Henderson
2026-09-12 3:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/9] net/rds: guard every work-requeueing site with rds_destroy_pending() Allison Henderson
2026-09-12 3:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/9] net/rds: make rds_destroy_pending() cover single-connection destroy Allison Henderson
2026-09-12 3:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/9] net/rds: split connection destroy into quiesce and kref-governed free Allison Henderson
2026-09-12 3:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 4/9] net/rds: wait for connections to be freed on transport unload Allison Henderson
2026-09-12 3:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 5/9] net/rds: unlink transport nodes before a possibly deferred connection free Allison Henderson
2026-09-12 3:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 6/9] net/rds: hold connection references in lookup, sockets and c_passive Allison Henderson
2026-09-12 3:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 7/9] net/rds: pin the connection across RDMA-CM event handling Allison Henderson
2026-09-12 3:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 8/9] net/rds: drop rds_conn_count in favor of t_conn_count Allison Henderson
2026-09-12 3:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 9/9] net/rds: hold a connection reference from struct rds_incoming Allison Henderson
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