kernel/linux.git/net/rxrpc/io_thread.c, branch v6.6.151

rxrpc: Disable IRQ, not BH, to take the lock for ->attend_link

2026-08-03T09:15:40+00:00

commit d920270a6dbf756384b125ce39c17666a7c0c9f4 upstream. Use spin_lock_irq(), not spin_lock_bh() to take the lock when accessing the ->attend_link() to stop a delay in the I/O thread due to an interrupt being taken in the app thread whilst that holds the lock and vice versa. Fixes: a2ea9a907260 ("rxrpc: Use irq-disabling spinlocks between app and I/O thread") Signed-off-by: David Howells cc: Marc Dionne cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2870146.1734037095@warthog.procyon.org.uk Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

rxrpc: Fix potential UAF after skb_unshare() failure

2026-05-17T15:13:35+00:00

[ Upstream commit 1f2740150f904bfa60e4bad74d65add3ccb5e7f8 ] If skb_unshare() fails to unshare a packet due to allocation failure in rxrpc_input_packet(), the skb pointer in the parent (rxrpc_io_thread()) will be NULL'd out. This will likely cause the call to trace_rxrpc_rx_done() to oops. Fix this by moving the unsharing down to where rxrpc_input_call_event() calls rxrpc_input_call_packet(). There are a number of places prior to that where we ignore DATA packets for a variety of reasons (such as the call already being complete) for which an unshare is then avoided. And with that, rxrpc_input_packet() doesn't need to take a pointer to the pointer to the packet, so change that to just a pointer. Fixes: 2d1faf7a0ca3 ("rxrpc: Simplify skbuff accounting in receive path") Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260408121252.2249051-1-dhowells%40redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Howells cc: Marc Dionne cc: Jeffrey Altman cc: Simon Horman cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org cc: stable@kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422161438.2593376-4-dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski [ Relocated the unshare/skb_copy block from rxrpc_input_call_event()'s rx_queue dequeue loop to existing `if (skb) rxrpc_input_call_packet()` site, and substituted rxrpc_skb_put_call_rx with rxrpc_skb_put_input. ] Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin [ Readd rxrpc_skb_put_response_copy() or will cause a build fail with commit 24481a7f5733 ("rxrpc: Fix conn-level packet handling to unshare RESPONSE packets") ] Signed-off-by: Wentao Guan Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

rxrpc: Only put the call ref if one was acquired

2026-04-18T08:39:52+00:00

commit 6331f1b24a3e85465f6454e003a3e6c22005a5c5 upstream. rxrpc_input_packet_on_conn() can process a to-client packet after the current client call on the channel has already been torn down. In that case chan->call is NULL, rxrpc_try_get_call() returns NULL and there is no reference to drop. The client-side implicit-end error path does not account for that and unconditionally calls rxrpc_put_call(). This turns a protocol error path into a kernel crash instead of rejecting the packet. Only drop the call reference if one was actually acquired. Keep the existing protocol error handling unchanged. Fixes: 5e6ef4f1017c ("rxrpc: Make the I/O thread take over the call and local processor work") Reported-by: Yifan Wu Reported-by: Juefei Pu Signed-off-by: Douya Le Co-developed-by: Yuan Tan Signed-off-by: Yuan Tan Suggested-by: Xin Liu Signed-off-by: Ao Zhou Signed-off-by: David Howells cc: Marc Dionne cc: Simon Horman cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org cc: stable@kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260408121252.2249051-11-dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

rxrpc: Fix a race between socket set up and I/O thread creation

2024-10-10T09:58:08+00:00

commit bc212465326e8587325f520a052346f0b57360e6 upstream. In rxrpc_open_socket(), it sets up the socket and then sets up the I/O thread that will handle it. This is a problem, however, as there's a gap between the two phases in which a packet may come into rxrpc_encap_rcv() from the UDP packet but we oops when trying to wake the not-yet created I/O thread. As a quick fix, just make rxrpc_encap_rcv() discard the packet if there's no I/O thread yet. A better, but more intrusive fix would perhaps be to rearrange things such that the socket creation is done by the I/O thread. Fixes: a275da62e8c1 ("rxrpc: Create a per-local endpoint receive queue and I/O thread") Signed-off-by: David Howells cc: yuxuanzhe@outlook.com cc: Marc Dionne cc: Simon Horman cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241001132702.3122709-2-dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

rxrpc: Allow a delay to be injected into packet reception

2023-01-31T16:38:09+00:00

If CONFIG_AF_RXRPC_DEBUG_RX_DELAY=y, then a delay is injected between packets and errors being received and them being made available to the processing code, thereby allowing the RTT to be artificially increased. Signed-off-by: David Howells cc: Marc Dionne cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org

rxrpc: Move client call connection to the I/O thread

2023-01-06T09:43:33+00:00

Move the connection setup of client calls to the I/O thread so that a whole load of locking and barrierage can be eliminated. This necessitates the app thread waiting for connection to complete before it can begin encrypting data. This also completes the fix for a race that exists between call connection and call disconnection whereby the data transmission code adds the call to the peer error distribution list after the call has been disconnected (say by the rxrpc socket getting closed). The fix is to complete the process of moving call connection, data transmission and call disconnection into the I/O thread and thus forcibly serialising them. Note that the issue may predate the overhaul to an I/O thread model that were included in the merge window for v6.2, but the timing is very much changed by the change given below. Fixes: cf37b5987508 ("rxrpc: Move DATA transmission into call processor work item") Reported-by: syzbot+c22650d2844392afdcfd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: David Howells cc: Marc Dionne cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org

rxrpc: Move the client conn cache management to the I/O thread

2023-01-06T09:43:33+00:00

Move the management of the client connection cache to the I/O thread rather than managing it from the namespace as an aggregate across all the local endpoints within the namespace. This will allow a load of locking to be got rid of in a future patch as only the I/O thread will be looking at the this. The downside is that the total number of cached connections on the system can get higher because the limit is now per-local rather than per-netns. We can, however, keep the number of client conns in use across the entire netfs and use that to reduce the expiration time of idle connection. Signed-off-by: David Howells cc: Marc Dionne cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org

rxrpc: Offload the completion of service conn security to the I/O thread

2023-01-06T09:43:32+00:00

Offload the completion of the challenge/response cycle on a service connection to the I/O thread. After the RESPONSE packet has been successfully decrypted and verified by the work queue, offloading the changing of the call states to the I/O thread makes iteration over the conn's channel list simpler. Do this by marking the RESPONSE skbuff and putting it onto the receive queue for the I/O thread to collect. We put it on the front of the queue as we've already received the packet for it. Signed-off-by: David Howells cc: Marc Dionne cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org

rxrpc: Tidy up abort generation infrastructure

2023-01-06T09:43:32+00:00

Tidy up the abort generation infrastructure in the following ways: (1) Create an enum and string mapping table to list the reasons an abort might be generated in tracing. (2) Replace the 3-char string with the values from (1) in the places that use that to log the abort source. This gets rid of a memcpy() in the tracepoint. (3) Subsume the rxrpc_rx_eproto tracepoint with the rxrpc_abort tracepoint and use values from (1) to indicate the trace reason. (4) Always make a call to an abort function at the point of the abort rather than stashing the values into variables and using goto to get to a place where it reported. The C optimiser will collapse the calls together as appropriate. The abort functions return a value that can be returned directly if appropriate. Note that this extends into afs also at the points where that generates an abort. To aid with this, the afs sources need to #define RXRPC_TRACE_ONLY_DEFINE_ENUMS before including the rxrpc tracing header because they don't have access to the rxrpc internal structures that some of the tracepoints make use of. Signed-off-by: David Howells cc: Marc Dionne cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org

rxrpc: Implement a mechanism to send an event notification to a connection

2023-01-06T09:43:31+00:00

Provide a means by which an event notification can be sent to a connection through such that the I/O thread can pick it up and handle it rather than doing it in a separate workqueue. This is then used to move the deferred final ACK of a call into the I/O thread rather than a separate work queue as part of the drive to do all transmission from the I/O thread. Signed-off-by: David Howells cc: Marc Dionne cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org