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
Subject: [PATCH net-next v8 12/13] net/rds: pin the connection across RDMA-CM event handling
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2026 09:32:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261003163215.250253-13-achender@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261003163215.250253-1-achender@kernel.org>
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. Before this series that was already a use-after-free
whenever a callback destroyed the connection, since rds_conn_destroy()
freed it synchronously and the handler's mutex_unlock() ran on freed
memory; the one such callback, rds_ib_cm_connect_complete() on a
protocol version below 3.1, has meanwhile been switched to
rds_conn_drop() by commit f97d8c7bab78 ("rds: ib: use rds_conn_drop()
on protocol version mismatch"), which also removed the deadlock that
destroy took on c_cm_lock.
Now that a connection is freed by its last reference, none of the
callbacks the handler dispatches drops a reference on the connection
it was handed: the version-mismatch path only drops the connection,
and rds_ib_cm_handle_connect() puts the reference rds_conn_create()
gave it, on a connection the listener's cm_id never pointed at. What
can reach zero while an event is in flight are the holders outside
the handler - the destroy's initial reference, a socket's cache, a
parent's c_passive, an inc. Today the shutdown pass destroys the
cm_id, and rdma_destroy_id() waits for a running handler, before the
initial reference is dropped, so every event is ordered ahead of the
free; the pin is defensive, keeping the handler correct without
leaning on that ordering. Take a reference for the duration of the
handler, and ignore the event if the connection is already at zero
references rather than handle it.
rds_ib_cm_initiate_connect() has the same hole on the active side: a
connection whose destroy began while its address and route were
resolving reaches RDMA_CM_EVENT_ROUTE_RESOLVED and sets up a QP -
taking a device reference in rds_ib_add_conn() - after the destroy's
shutdown pass has run, or with that pass waiting on c_cm_lock behind
the handler. Nothing would ever release the QP, the cm_id or the
device reference, and rds_ib_exit() would wait forever for the
device. Return before the QP is set up when the destroy is pending;
the cm_id is still ic->i_cm_id, so the shutdown destroys it. An
unload that begins after this check has passed is covered too:
rds_ib_dev_shutdown() marks every device before the exit sweep runs,
and rds_ib_add_conn() refuses a marked device, so such a connect
fails and its connection stays on the nodev list for the sweep.
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 | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
net/rds/rdma_transport.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/rds/ib_cm.c b/net/rds/ib_cm.c
index 165a29d4196e..6307c88c3143 100644
--- a/net/rds/ib_cm.c
+++ b/net/rds/ib_cm.c
@@ -876,6 +876,13 @@ 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");
@@ -930,8 +937,8 @@ int rds_ib_cm_handle_connect(struct rdma_cm_id *cm_id,
mutex_unlock(&conn->c_cm_lock);
/* Drop the reference rds_conn_create() handed us. The
* conn stays reachable through cm_id->context without a
- * reference of its own for now; the CM event handler is
- * given one of its own by a following patch.
+ * reference of its own; rds_rdma_cm_event_handler_cmn()
+ * takes one for the duration of each event it handles.
*/
rds_conn_put(conn);
}
@@ -950,6 +957,17 @@ int rds_ib_cm_initiate_connect(struct rdma_cm_id *cm_id, bool isv6)
union rds_ib_conn_priv dp;
int ret;
+ /* A destroy that began while the address and route were being
+ * resolved has already quiesced this conn, or is waiting on
+ * c_cm_lock to do so. Setting up a QP now would leave it - and
+ * the device reference rds_ib_add_conn() takes - with no
+ * shutdown pass left to tear them down. The id we were handed
+ * is still ic->i_cm_id, so return success and let that shutdown
+ * destroy it, rather than have the rdma_cm destroy it on error.
+ */
+ if (rds_destroy_pending(conn))
+ return 0;
+
/* If the peer doesn't do protocol negotiation, we must
* default to RDSv3.0 */
rds_ib_set_protocol(conn, RDS_PROTOCOL_4_1);
diff --git a/net/rds/rdma_transport.c b/net/rds/rdma_transport.c
index 3f853004c490..a789104725c9 100644
--- a/net/rds/rdma_transport.c
+++ b/net/rds/rdma_transport.c
@@ -63,6 +63,21 @@ 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, since the mutex
+ * released at out: lives in the connection's path array. None
+ * of the callbacks below drops a reference on this connection,
+ * and the shutdown destroys the cm_id - waiting for a running
+ * handler - before the last reference can go, so this is
+ * defensive. A connection already at zero references 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 +186,10 @@ 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);
--
2.25.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-03 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-03 16:32 [PATCH net-next v8 00/13] net/rds: make connection lifetime reference-counted Allison Henderson
2026-10-03 16:32 ` [PATCH net-next v8 01/13] net/rds: ib: don't enable interrupts in rds_ib_conn_free() Allison Henderson
2026-10-03 16:32 ` [PATCH net-next v8 02/13] net/rds: undo conn_alloc() the same way on every __rds_conn_create() exit Allison Henderson
2026-10-03 16:32 ` [PATCH net-next v8 03/13] net/rds: ib: refuse to attach a connection to a device being removed Allison Henderson
2026-10-04 16:34 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-03 16:32 ` [PATCH net-next v8 04/13] net/rds: guard every work-requeueing site with rds_destroy_pending() Allison Henderson
2026-10-04 16:34 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-03 16:32 ` [PATCH net-next v8 05/13] net/rds: make rds_destroy_pending() report a connection's own destroy Allison Henderson
2026-10-03 16:32 ` [PATCH net-next v8 06/13] net/rds: split connection destroy into quiesce and kref-governed free Allison Henderson
2026-10-03 16:32 ` [PATCH net-next v8 07/13] net/rds: unlink transport nodes before a possibly deferred connection free Allison Henderson
2026-10-04 16:35 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-03 16:32 ` [PATCH net-next v8 08/13] net/rds: wait for connections to be freed on transport unload Allison Henderson
2026-10-04 16:35 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-03 16:32 ` [PATCH net-next v8 09/13] net/rds: hold a connection reference from struct rds_incoming Allison Henderson
2026-10-04 16:35 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-03 16:32 ` [PATCH net-next v8 10/13] net/rds: take cp_lock to purge cp_send_queue in the quiesce Allison Henderson
2026-10-03 16:32 ` [PATCH net-next v8 11/13] net/rds: hold connection references in lookup, sockets and c_passive Allison Henderson
2026-10-04 16:35 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-03 16:32 ` Allison Henderson [this message]
2026-10-04 16:35 ` [PATCH net-next v8 12/13] net/rds: pin the connection across RDMA-CM event handling netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-03 16:32 ` [PATCH net-next v8 13/13] net/rds: drop rds_conn_count in favor of t_conn_count Allison Henderson
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