Re: [PATCH net-next] net/rds: clear i_rx_lat_trace in rds_inc_path_init()

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>:

On Sun,  9 Aug 2026 22:56:31 -0700 you wrote:
> The commit that introduced the receive-path latency trace added the
> clearing of inc->i_rx_lat_trace[] to rds_inc_init() only;
> rds_inc_path_init() never got it.
> 
> That asymmetry matters for the one caller that reuses memory:
> rds_tcp_data_recv() carves its rds_tcp_incoming out of a kmem_cache
> with no zeroing and no constructor, so after rds_inc_path_init() the
> array still holds the timestamps of whatever message previously
> occupied that slab object.  No stale value is user-visible today -
> every message that reaches the socket happens to overwrite all four
> slots (RX_HDR at allocation, RX_START when the header completes,
> RX_END at delivery, RX_CMSG at recvmsg time) before
> RDS_CMSG_RXPATH_LATENCY reads them back as deltas - but that is a
> property of the current writers, not of the init contract, and a
> future trace point or an early-exit path would expose another
> message's timestamps to userspace.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next] net/rds: clear i_rx_lat_trace in rds_inc_path_init()
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/68b3d4dbaf20

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