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authorAlexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com>2026-04-27 18:59:34 +0300
committerDavid Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>2026-05-08 16:38:03 +0300
commitd2248cb70c070f8f04762872772e155b59016f17 (patch)
treef1054e1f1bdd46f281cbaae330fe1a7cec199792
parentb5314f2c6654a3616fd72777deb1ca766cc50618 (diff)
downloadlinux-d2248cb70c070f8f04762872772e155b59016f17.tar.xz
dlm: fix add msg handle in send_queue ordered
In a benchmark scenario triggering a lot of requests that triggers a lot of DLM messages on the network it can be that the mh->seq is not ordered according the oldest seq number. This ordering is required by dlm_receive_ack as "before(mh->seq, seq)" will stop to check for older sequence numbers that are ordered in the tail of "node->send_queue". The side effects of not having it correct ordered regarding "before(mh->seq, seq)" are refcounting issues and use-after free. I only was able to reproduce this issue in a experimental DLM branch and a user space DLM benchmark that uses io_uring. After changing this I don't experienced any refcounting with the sending buffer issues anymore. Fixes: 489d8e559c659 ("fs: dlm: add reliable connection if reconnect") Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--fs/dlm/midcomms.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dlm/midcomms.c b/fs/dlm/midcomms.c
index a5b363b4785f..6b522d4e2b7e 100644
--- a/fs/dlm/midcomms.c
+++ b/fs/dlm/midcomms.c
@@ -969,10 +969,10 @@ static void midcomms_new_msg_cb(void *data)
atomic_inc(&mh->node->send_queue_cnt);
spin_lock_bh(&mh->node->send_queue_lock);
+ /* need to be locked with list_add_tail_rcu() because list is ordered */
+ mh->seq = atomic_fetch_inc(&mh->node->seq_send);
list_add_tail_rcu(&mh->list, &mh->node->send_queue);
spin_unlock_bh(&mh->node->send_queue_lock);
-
- mh->seq = atomic_fetch_inc(&mh->node->seq_send);
}
static struct dlm_msg *dlm_midcomms_get_msg_3_2(struct dlm_mhandle *mh, int nodeid,