[PATCH net v4 3/4] net/rds: fix rds_message leak in the rds_send_xmit() drop path

Allison Henderson <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:16:28 -0700
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-rdma,org.kernel.vger.netdev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: Sharath Srinivasan <[email protected]>

When rds_send_xmit() picks the next message off cp_send_queue it takes
its own reference with rds_message_addref().  If the message then hits
the never-retransmit check (RDS_MSG_FLUSH, or an RDMA op that was
already retransmitted), it is moved to the local to_be_dropped list and
that reference is dropped after the batch.

However, if RDS_MSG_ON_CONN has already been cleared, the message is
not added to to_be_dropped and the reference taken above is never
dropped: cp_xmit_rm has not been set at this point, so the loop simply
abandons rm and the rds_message (and everything it pins: pages, MRs,
notifiers) leaks after an RDMA error.

The only other places that clear RDS_MSG_ON_CONN are
rds_send_path_drop_acked() and rds_send_drop_to(), and both can run
while rds_send_xmit() has dropped cp_lock between moving the message
to cp_retrans and re-taking the lock in the never-retransmit check:
rds_send_path_drop_acked() can ack away a message that already sat on
cp_retrans - the RDS_MSG_RETRANSMITTED case above - and
rds_send_drop_to() runs on socket close.  Both unlink the message
under cp_lock and put their own reference, leaving the xmit-path
reference stranded.

Drop the reference directly in that case.

This mirrors Oracle UEK commit "net/rds: fix rds_message memleak in
rds_send_xmit".

Fixes: 2ad8099b58f2 ("RDS: rds_send_xmit() locking/irq fixes")
Signed-off-by: Gerd Rausch <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sharath Srinivasan <[email protected]>
[achender: port to net-next; update commit message, checkpatch nits]
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <[email protected]>
---
 net/rds/send.c | 18 +++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/rds/send.c b/net/rds/send.c
index 68be1bf0e0adf..7e48f64dfaa67 100644
--- a/net/rds/send.c
+++ b/net/rds/send.c
@@ -339,9 +339,21 @@ int rds_send_xmit(struct rds_conn_path *cp)
 			    (rm->rdma.op_active &&
 			    test_bit(RDS_MSG_RETRANSMITTED, &rm->m_flags))) {
 				spin_lock_irqsave(&cp->cp_lock, flags);
-				if (test_and_clear_bit(RDS_MSG_ON_CONN, &rm->m_flags))
-					list_move(&rm->m_conn_item, &to_be_dropped);
-				spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cp->cp_lock, flags);
+				if (test_and_clear_bit(RDS_MSG_ON_CONN,
+						       &rm->m_flags)) {
+					/* our ref is put after the batch */
+					list_move(&rm->m_conn_item,
+						  &to_be_dropped);
+					spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cp->cp_lock,
+							       flags);
+				} else {
+					/* already off the conn list; drop
+					 * the ref taken above ourselves
+					 */
+					spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cp->cp_lock,
+							       flags);
+					rds_message_put(rm);
+				}
 				continue;
 			}
 
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