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[PATCH net] net/smc: free pending qentry in smc_llc_flow_stop() before memset

From: Mahanta Jambigi <mjambigi@linux.ibm.com>
Date: 2026-08-18 07:40:09
Also in: linux-s390
Subsystem: networking [general], shared memory communications (smc) sockets, the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, D. Wythe, Dust Li, Sidraya Jayagond, Mahanta Jambigi, Linus Torvalds

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 <redacted>
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);
-- 
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