kernel/linux.git/net/rds/loop.c, branch v7.3-rc1

net/rds: initialize i_conn_path in rds_inc_init()

2026-08-13T10:52:29+00:00

rds_inc_init() initializes every field of the embedded rds_incoming except i_conn_path, and incomings are not zero-allocated (IB carves them out of a slab cache). The field therefore holds stale garbage for incs created by rds_ib. The loopback transport is different: rds_loop_xmit() re-runs rds_inc_init() on the message's embedded inc after rds_send_queue_rm() has already stored the connection path in it, so there the field holds a live value rather than garbage, and a NULL store would discard it. Switch rds_loop_xmit() to rds_inc_path_init() with the connection's single path, which is exactly the value readers of the field reconstruct for a non-multipath transport. With loopback preserving the field, initialize it to NULL in rds_inc_init() so that any future reader trips over a clean NULL pointer instead of a stale one, and so the two init helpers (rds_inc_init/rds_inc_path_init) leave the structure in an equivalent, fully-initialized state. Hardening only; no reader dereferences i_conn_path for a non-multipath transport today. This mirrors Oracle UEK commit "rds: rds_inc_init() should initialize the inc->i_conn_path field". Signed-off-by: William Kucharski [achender: port to net-next; keep loopback's i_conn_path valid by switching rds_loop_xmit() to rds_inc_path_init(); update commit message] Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-fable-5 Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260809005103.82371-3-achender@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

rds: Changing IP address internal representation to struct in6_addr

2018-07-24T04:17:44+00:00

This patch changes the internal representation of an IP address to use struct in6_addr. IPv4 address is stored as an IPv4 mapped address. All the functions which take an IP address as argument are also changed to use struct in6_addr. But RDS socket layer is not modified such that it still does not accept IPv6 address from an application. And RDS layer does not accept nor initiate IPv6 connections. v2: Fixed sparse warnings. Signed-off-by: Ka-Cheong Poon Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

rds: clean up loopback rds_connections on netns deletion

2018-06-27T01:11:03+00:00

The RDS core module creates rds_connections based on callbacks from rds_loop_transport when sending/receiving packets to local addresses. These connections will need to be cleaned up when they are created from a netns that is not init_net, and that netns is deleted. Add the changes aligned with the changes from commit ebeeb1ad9b8a ("rds: tcp: use rds_destroy_pending() to synchronize netns/module teardown and rds connection/workq management") for rds_loop_transport Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+4c20b3866171ce8441d2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

rds: avoid unenecessary cong_update in loop transport

2018-06-15T02:01:49+00:00

Loop transport which is self loopback, remote port congestion update isn't relevant. Infact the xmit path already ignores it. Receive path needs to do the same. Reported-by: syzbot+4c20b3866171ce8441d2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reviewed-by: Sowmini Varadhan Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

RDS: TCP: Hooks to set up a single connection path

2016-07-01T20:45:17+00:00

This patch adds ->conn_path_connect callbacks in the rds_transport that are used to set up a single connection path. Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

RDS: TCP: make receive path use the rds_conn_path

2016-07-01T20:45:17+00:00

The ->sk_user_data contains a pointer to the rds_conn_path for the socket. Use this consistently in the rds_tcp_data_ready callbacks to get the rds_conn_path for rds_recv_incoming. Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

RDS: Rework path specific indirections

2016-07-01T20:45:17+00:00

Refactor code to avoid separate indirections for single-path and multipath transports. All transports (both single and mp-capable) will get a pointer to the rds_conn_path, and can trivially derive the rds_connection from the ->cp_conn. Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2016-06-30T09:03:36+00:00

Several cases of overlapping changes, except the packet scheduler conflicts which deal with the addition of the free list parameter to qdisc_enqueue(). Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: rds: fix coding style issues

2016-06-19T04:34:09+00:00

Fix coding style issues in the following files: ib_cm.c: add space loop.c: convert spaces to tabs sysctl.c: add space tcp.h: convert spaces to tabs tcp_connect.c:remove extra indentation in switch statement tcp_recv.c: convert spaces to tabs tcp_send.c: convert spaces to tabs transport.c: move brace up one line on for statement Signed-off-by: Joshua Houghton Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar Signed-off-by: David S. Miller