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The\nmarshal path took the Send-side reference only when SGEs needed\nDMA-unmap (sc_unmap_count > 0), which made a Send carrying only\npre-registered buffers an exception: the Reply handler dropped\nrl_kref from 1 to 0 and freed the req while the HCA might still\nbe DMA-reading from its send buffer.\n\nGive rl_kref a narrower job. The RPC layer takes one reference\nwhen slot allocation hands a req out. rpcrdma_prepare_send_sges()\ntakes a Send-side reference unconditionally after WR preparation\nsucceeds. xprt_rdma_free_slot() and xprt_rdma_bc_free_rqst() drop\nthe RPC-layer reference; rpcrdma_sendctx_unmap() drops the\nSend-side reference. The req returns to its free pool only after\nboth owners have signed off.\n\nThe existing kref_init(&req->rl_kref) call in\nrpcrdma_prepare_send_sges() is removed. Initialization moves to\nthe slot-allocation paths (xprt_rdma_alloc_slot and\nrpcrdma_bc_rqst_get), and the release callback re-arms rl_kref\nbefore the req returns to a free pool. A re-init in the marshal\npath would discard the RPC-layer reference that already exists\non entry.\n\nThree invariants follow:\n\n - Any rpcrdma_req held by an rpc_rqst has rl_kref >= 1.\n xprt_rdma_alloc_slot(), rpcrdma_bc_rqst_get(), and the\n backlog-wake branch in xprt_rdma_alloc_slot() each kref_init\n rl_kref before publishing the req. Without this invariant,\n an RPC task that aborts between slot allocation and marshal\n (gss_refresh failure or signal during call_connect, for\n example) would drive xprt_release() ->\n xprt_rdma_free_slot() -> kref_put against a refcount of\n zero, saturating refcount_t and stranding the slot.\n\n - The Send-side reference is taken only after WR prep\n succeeds. A mapping failure in rpcrdma_prepare_send_sges()\n runs rpcrdma_sendctx_cancel(), which DMA-unmaps the sendctx\n and clears sc_req without touching rl_kref. The sendctx\n ring walks in rpcrdma_sendctx_put_locked() and\n rpcrdma_sendctxs_destroy() skip entries with sc_req == NULL,\n so a burst of -EIO marshal failures cannot hold reqs off\n rb_send_bufs.\n\n - The release callback re-arms rl_kref so the next consumer\n enters with the invariant satisfied.\n\nReplies now complete the RPC directly. rpcrdma_reply_handler()\ncalls rpcrdma_complete_rqst() in place of kref_put on the\nnon-LocalInv branch. The LocalInv branch already completes the\nRPC from frwr_unmap_async() and is unaffected.\n\nBecause Send-side references can now outlive RPC completion,\nconnection teardown drains sendctx entries whose unsignaled\nSends never had a later signaled completion to walk the ring.\nrpcrdma_sendctxs_destroy() walks the active range and runs\nrpcrdma_sendctx_unmap() on each entry with a non-NULL sc_req\nbefore the request buffers are reset, and is moved ahead of\nrpcrdma_reqs_reset() in rpcrdma_xprt_disconnect() so the reqs\nare still in their pre-reset state when the Send-side refs are\nreleased.\n\nThe drain creates a teardown-ordering hazard on the backchannel\npath. With the new lifetime, releasing a bc_prealloc req from\nrpcrdma_req_release() re-adds it to bc_pa_list. The disconnect\nin xprt_rdma_destroy() runs after xprt_destroy_backchannel() has\nalready emptied bc_pa_list, so the drained reqs would otherwise\nleak. xprt_rdma_destroy() now runs xprt_rdma_bc_destroy(xprt, 0)\na second time after the disconnect to reclaim them.", "affected": [ { "vendor": "Linux", "product": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "versions": [ { "version": "0ab115237025f5e379620bbcd56a02697d07b002", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "740975054a1970c0cf15f70ac39724a064f45847" }, { "version": "0ab115237025f5e379620bbcd56a02697d07b002", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "9f3d9b68c1c6c51746e5ecdb52b2e6a2901de37e" }, { "version": "0ab115237025f5e379620bbcd56a02697d07b002", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "e7632089523acddcdd8f090ad19e96fb3107b04d" }, { "version": "0ab115237025f5e379620bbcd56a02697d07b002", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "53442c7d0c888e51b8bc3da196970a669cc6b294" }, { "version": "0ab115237025f5e379620bbcd56a02697d07b002", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "8203f760a72bd39a3b66bc4eff0aa272a99fe22b" }, { "version": "0ab115237025f5e379620bbcd56a02697d07b002", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "e786233d2e0bbff9a82e43f02ae3a46ab4b08ec3" } ] }, { "vendor": "Linux", "product": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "versions": [ { "version": "5.3", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThan": "5.3" }, { "version": "6.1.178", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.1.*" }, { "version": "6.6.145", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*" }, { "version": "6.12.97", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*" }, { "version": "6.18.40", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*" }, { "version": "7.1.5", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "7.1.*" }, { "version": "7.2", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix", "lessThanOrEqual": "*" } ] } ] } } }