[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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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)
- v4 current
- 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) &&
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