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[PATCH net v4 7/7] net/rds: don't let rds_conn_shutdown() consume a concurrent drop

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From: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-08-24 00:38:05
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Subsystem: networking [general], rds - reliable datagram sockets, the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Allison Henderson, Linus Torvalds

Revision v4 of 2 in this series.

Revisions (2)
  1. v4 current
  2. v5 [diff vs current]
rds_conn_shutdown() finishes by moving the path from
RDS_CONN_DISCONNECTING to RDS_CONN_DOWN, and also accepts
RDS_CONN_ERROR as the starting state of that final transition, so that
a FIN processed in softirq context during the teardown does not derail
the shutdown into a noisy error path.

But consuming that RDS_CONN_ERROR also consumes the shutdown pass that
came with it: rds_conn_path_drop() sets RDS_CONN_ERROR and then queues
cp_down_w, and a pass that starts on a path already in RDS_CONN_DOWN
is a no-op.  For the FIN case that is harmless - the socket the FIN
arrived on is the very socket the teardown just released.  It is not
harmless for a dropper that attached something to the path first.

rds_tcp_accept_one() is such a dropper.  Its path claim in
rds_tcp_accept_one_path() transitions RDS_CONN_DOWN ->
RDS_CONN_CONNECTING, and a concurrent drop - a FIN on a previous
socket in softirq context, an administrative reset - can put the path
into RDS_CONN_ERROR between that claim and the state check that
follows, which accepts RDS_CONN_ERROR.  The accept then installs the
freshly accepted socket with rds_tcp_set_callbacks() while the queued
teardown - which sampled tc->t_sock before this socket existed - is
still running.  rds_connect_path_complete() fails its transition to
RDS_CONN_UP and drops the path again, queueing the pass that should
reap the socket it just installed.  If the in-flight shutdown's final
transition consumes that drop's RDS_CONN_ERROR, the queued pass finds
the path in RDS_CONN_DOWN and does nothing.  The installed socket is
never torn down: it sits established with its callbacks armed and its
rds_tcp_connection on rds_tcp_tc_list, the peer sees a connection that
nothing ever reads, and the path is wedged in RDS_CONN_DOWN until some
later event drops it again.  Reproduced with widened race windows as
an ever-growing receive queue on a socket owned by a path stuck in
RDS_CONN_DOWN, with the peer's send path wedged behind it.

Make the final transition only DISCONNECTING -> DOWN.  If it fails
because the path is in RDS_CONN_ERROR, a drop raced the teardown:
return quietly and let the pass that drop queued finish the job - it
tears down whatever attached to the path in the meantime, completes
the transition to RDS_CONN_DOWN, and handles the reconnect.  If no
pass was queued because a destroy is pending, rds_conn_path_destroy()
performs the final drop and flush itself.  The FIN case keeps making
progress, one pass later and still without noisy logging; any other
unexpected state keeps today's rds_conn_path_error() handling.

On kernels without the preceding patches the same hazard exists with
the sample-based quiesce; the fix applies there equally.

Fixes: e97656d03ca0 ("rds: tcp: allow progress of rds_conn_shutdown if the rds_connection is marked ERROR by an intervening FIN")
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>
---
    New in v4.  Fixes the accept-vs-drop socket leak found while
    re-reviewing patch 6.
 net/rds/connection.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++-----------
 net/rds/tcp.c        |  9 ++++++---
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/rds/connection.c b/net/rds/connection.c
index fbbac55a0e81..73b4fa8a4b96 100644
--- a/net/rds/connection.c
+++ b/net/rds/connection.c
@@ -447,20 +447,27 @@ void rds_conn_shutdown(struct rds_conn_path *cp)
 		wake_up_all(&cp->cp_waitq);
 
 		if (!rds_conn_path_transition(cp, RDS_CONN_DISCONNECTING,
-					      RDS_CONN_DOWN) &&
-		    !rds_conn_path_transition(cp, RDS_CONN_ERROR,
 					      RDS_CONN_DOWN)) {
-			/* This can happen - eg when we're in the middle of tearing
-			 * down the connection, and someone unloads the rds module.
-			 * Quite reproducible with loopback connections.
-			 * Mostly harmless.
+			/* The path was dropped again while we tore it
+			 * down: by a socket state-change callback in
+			 * irq context on receipt of a FIN, or by an
+			 * accept that claimed the path just before a
+			 * drop put it back to RDS_CONN_ERROR and then
+			 * installed a fresh socket on it.  The drop
+			 * queued another shutdown pass, and that pass
+			 * must run, because it is what tears down
+			 * whatever attached to the path after the
+			 * transport shutdown above sampled its state.
+			 * Consuming the RDS_CONN_ERROR here would turn
+			 * that pass into a no-op: leave the state
+			 * alone, and let the pass finish the job.
 			 *
-			 * Note that this also happens with rds-tcp because
-			 * we could have triggered rds_conn_path_drop in irq
-			 * mode from rds_tcp_state change on the receipt of
-			 * a FIN, thus we need to recheck for RDS_CONN_ERROR
-			 * here.
+			 * Anything else - e.g. a module unload pulling
+			 * the connection down mid-teardown - keeps the
+			 * usual noisy drop.
 			 */
+			if (rds_conn_path_state(cp) == RDS_CONN_ERROR)
+				return;
 			rds_conn_path_error(cp, "%s: failed to transition "
 					    "to state DOWN, current state "
 					    "is %d\n", __func__,
diff --git a/net/rds/tcp.c b/net/rds/tcp.c
index 826e620b2dd1..50c2f0b3a038 100644
--- a/net/rds/tcp.c
+++ b/net/rds/tcp.c
@@ -165,9 +165,12 @@ void rds_tcp_reset_callbacks(struct socket *sock,
 	 * other state - typically RDS_CONN_DISCONNECTING or
 	 * RDS_CONN_ERROR with a shutdown in flight - is dropped
 	 * instead.  That still replaces its state, with RDS_CONN_ERROR,
-	 * and queues one more shutdown pass, but rds_conn_shutdown()
-	 * accepts RDS_CONN_ERROR in its final transition to
-	 * RDS_CONN_DOWN, so the shutdown in flight completes normally.
+	 * and, unless a pending destroy is about to reap the whole
+	 * connection anyway, queues one more shutdown pass.  A shutdown
+	 * already in flight leaves that RDS_CONN_ERROR alone when it
+	 * finishes; the queued pass then completes the transition to
+	 * RDS_CONN_DOWN and tears down anything that attached to the
+	 * path in the meantime.
 	 */
 	if (!rds_conn_path_transition(cp, RDS_CONN_CONNECTING,
 				      RDS_CONN_RESETTING) &&
-- 
2.25.1
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