[PATCH net] net/smc: Serialize link activation with teardown

[PATCH net] net/smc: Serialize link activation with teardown

[Chengfeng Ye]

smc_llc_link_active() marks a link active before scheduling its testlink
work. The first-link confirmation paths call it without llc_conf_mutex,
allowing link-down processing to clear the link between these operations:

  Connection setup                    Link-down worker
  smc_llc_link_active()
    link->state = SMC_LNK_ACTIVE
                                      smcr_link_clear()
                                        link->clearing = 1
                                        smc_llc_link_clear()
                                          cancel_delayed_work_sync()
    schedule_delayed_work()

The connection reference keeps the link alive during activation, but the
newly queued work outlives that reference. Later cleanup skips clearing
an already-clearing link, leaving its timer armed when the link group is
freed. KASAN reported:

  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __run_timers+0x723/0x8d0
  Write of size 8 at addr ffff88810f108810 by task swapper/1/0
  Call Trace:
   __run_timers+0x723/0x8d0
   timer_expire_remote+0xd3/0x120
   tmigr_handle_remote_up+0x4f4/0xab0
   __walk_groups_from+0x40/0x150
   tmigr_handle_remote+0x229/0x2c0
   run_timer_softirq+0x1f5/0x250

Hold llc_conf_mutex around first-link activation on both sides so that
link-down processing cannot cancel the work before it is queued. Also
protect the client's initial optional add-link processing, which can
activate a second link without the lock. The other add-link paths already
hold llc_conf_mutex. This serializes every activation with link teardown
without changing the handshake sequence or error handling.

Fixes: 877ae5be421d ("net/smc: periodic testlink support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chengfeng Ye <nicoyip.dev@gmail.com>
---
 net/smc/af_smc.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/smc/af_smc.c b/net/smc/af_smc.c
index e9f93b3ab435..221643624ace 100644
--- a/net/smc/af_smc.c
+++ b/net/smc/af_smc.c
@@ -665,8 +665,10 @@ static int smcr_clnt_conf_first_link(struct smc_sock *smc)
 	if (rc < 0)
 		return SMC_CLC_DECL_TIMEOUT_CL;
 
+	down_write(&link->lgr->llc_conf_mutex);
 	smc_llc_link_active(link);
 	smcr_lgr_set_type(link->lgr, SMC_LGR_SINGLE);
+	up_write(&link->lgr->llc_conf_mutex);
 
 	if (link->lgr->max_links > 1) {
 		/* optional 2nd link, receive ADD LINK request from server */
@@ -682,7 +684,9 @@ static int smcr_clnt_conf_first_link(struct smc_sock *smc)
 			return rc;
 		}
 		smc_llc_flow_qentry_clr(&link->lgr->llc_flow_lcl);
+		down_write(&link->lgr->llc_conf_mutex);
 		smc_llc_cli_add_link(link, qentry);
+		up_write(&link->lgr->llc_conf_mutex);
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -1909,8 +1913,10 @@ static int smcr_serv_conf_first_link(struct smc_sock *smc)
 	/* confirm_rkey is implicit on 1st contact */
 	smc->conn.rmb_desc->is_conf_rkey = true;
 
+	down_write(&link->lgr->llc_conf_mutex);
 	smc_llc_link_active(link);
 	smcr_lgr_set_type(link->lgr, SMC_LGR_SINGLE);
+	up_write(&link->lgr->llc_conf_mutex);
 
 	if (link->lgr->max_links > 1) {
 		down_write(&link->lgr->llc_conf_mutex);
-- 
2.43.0

Re: [PATCH net] net/smc: Serialize link activation with teardown

[patchwork-bot+netdevbpf]

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>:

On Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:45:47 +0800 you wrote:
> smc_llc_link_active() marks a link active before scheduling its testlink
> work. The first-link confirmation paths call it without llc_conf_mutex,
> allowing link-down processing to clear the link between these operations:
> 
>   Connection setup                    Link-down worker
>   smc_llc_link_active()
>     link->state = SMC_LNK_ACTIVE
>                                       smcr_link_clear()
>                                         link->clearing = 1
>                                         smc_llc_link_clear()
>                                           cancel_delayed_work_sync()
>     schedule_delayed_work()
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net] net/smc: Serialize link activation with teardown
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/6cccd4b720e2

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