Re: [PATCH] RDMA/siw: Fix CEP reference race in siw_accept()

Hi Bernard,

Thanks for your reply.

After carefully rechecking the code path, I realized that I had
overlooked synchronization mechanisms: the RDMA core serializes
application QP destruction with iw_cm_accept(), while peer-side teardown
is serialized by siw_cep_set_inuse() and siw_cep_set_free().

Therefore, the concurrent QP-destroy path described in this follow-up
patch is not reachable in the current implementation.

Please disregard my follow-up patch. I apologize for the confusion.

Thanks again for pointing this out.

Best regards,
Shuangpeng


> On Aug 21, 2026, at 11:34, Bernard Metzler <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 16.08.2026 08:13, Shuangpeng Bai wrote:
>> siw_accept() associates a CEP with the selected QP while holding
>> qp->state_lock. If the transition to RTS fails, the error path releases
>> the lock before detaching that association.
>> The cleanup drops the QP association reference before clearing qp->cep.
>> A concurrent QP destroy can acquire qp->state_lock in between, observe
>> the stale pointer, and drop the same association reference again. This
>> can free the CEP before siw_accept() releases its remaining reference,
>> causing a use-after-free.
> 
> Do we have a stack trace for that use-after-free?>
>> Serialize the error-side detachment with qp->state_lock and clear qp->cep
>> before dropping the association reference. This ensures that either the
>> accept cleanup or QP teardown removes the association, but not both.
>> This is a follow-up to commit a93949718259 ("RDMA/siw: Fix
>> use-after-free in siw_accept()") and addresses a separate race in the
>> same error path.
>> Fixes: 6c52fdc244b5 ("rdma/siw: connection management")
>> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Signed-off-by: Shuangpeng Bai <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>  drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_cm.c | 4 +++-
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_cm.c b/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_cm.c
>> index 0245b25e7271..da1b953f3fa3 100644
>> --- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_cm.c
>> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_cm.c
>> @@ -1751,11 +1751,13 @@ int siw_accept(struct iw_cm_id *id, struct iw_cm_conn_param *params)
>>   cep->state = SIW_EPSTATE_CLOSED;
>>     siw_free_cm_id(cep);
> 
> What can destroy the QP at this point?
> An appication QP destroy shall be serialized with this
> accept call by the RDMA core.
> 
> A concurrent connection drop by peer side would affect
> QP state, but is serialized at the cep using
> siw_cep_set_inuse()/_free() I don't see other cases
> which are not serialized...?
>> + down_write(&qp->state_lock);
> 
>>   if (qp->cep == cep) {
>> - siw_cep_put(cep);
>>   qp->cep = NULL;
>> + siw_cep_put(cep);
>>   }
>>   cep->qp = NULL;
>> + up_write(&qp->state_lock);
>>   siw_qp_put(qp);
>>  free_cep:
>>   siw_cep_set_free_and_put(cep);
>> base-commit: a9394971825933074032794a5feee5211509c774
>