lwn.git/include/trace/events/rxrpc.h, branch docs-mw

rxrpc: Fix re-decryption of RESPONSE packets

2026-04-23T21:29:15+00:00

If a RESPONSE packet gets a temporary failure during processing, it may end up in a partially decrypted state - and then get requeued for a retry. Fix this by just discarding the packet; we will send another CHALLENGE packet and thereby elicit a further response. Similarly, discard an incoming CHALLENGE packet if we get an error whilst generating a RESPONSE; the server will send another CHALLENGE. Fixes: 17926a79320a ("[AF_RXRPC]: Provide secure RxRPC sockets for use by userspace and kernel both") Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260422161438.2593376-4-dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Howells cc: Marc Dionne cc: Jeffrey Altman cc: Simon Horman cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org cc: stable@kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260423200909.3049438-3-dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

rxrpc: Fix potential UAF after skb_unshare() failure

2026-04-23T19:40:52+00:00

If skb_unshare() fails to unshare a packet due to allocation failure in rxrpc_input_packet(), the skb pointer in the parent (rxrpc_io_thread()) will be NULL'd out. This will likely cause the call to trace_rxrpc_rx_done() to oops. Fix this by moving the unsharing down to where rxrpc_input_call_event() calls rxrpc_input_call_packet(). There are a number of places prior to that where we ignore DATA packets for a variety of reasons (such as the call already being complete) for which an unshare is then avoided. And with that, rxrpc_input_packet() doesn't need to take a pointer to the pointer to the packet, so change that to just a pointer. Fixes: 2d1faf7a0ca3 ("rxrpc: Simplify skbuff accounting in receive path") Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260408121252.2249051-1-dhowells%40redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Howells cc: Marc Dionne cc: Jeffrey Altman cc: Simon Horman cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org cc: stable@kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422161438.2593376-4-dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

rxrpc: Fix rxkad crypto unalignment handling

2026-04-23T19:40:52+00:00

Fix handling of a packet with a misaligned crypto length. Also handle non-ENOMEM errors from decryption by aborting. Further, remove the WARN_ON_ONCE() so that it can't be remotely triggered (a trace line can still be emitted). Fixes: f93af41b9f5f ("rxrpc: Fix missing error checks for rxkad encryption/decryption failure") Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260408121252.2249051-1-dhowells%40redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Howells cc: Marc Dionne cc: Jeffrey Altman cc: Simon Horman cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org cc: stable@kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422161438.2593376-3-dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

rxrpc: Fix to request an ack if window is limited

2026-04-09T01:44:33+00:00

Peers may only send immediate acks for every 2 UDP packets received. When sending a jumbogram, it is important to check that there is sufficient window space to send another same sized jumbogram following the current one, and request an ack if there isn't. Failure to do so may cause the call to stall waiting for an ack until the resend timer fires. Where jumbograms are in use this causes a very significant drop in performance. Fixes: fe24a5494390 ("rxrpc: Send jumbo DATA packets") Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne Signed-off-by: David Howells cc: Jeffrey Altman cc: Simon Horman cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org cc: stable@kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260408121252.2249051-10-dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

rxrpc: Fix use of wrong skb when comparing queued RESP challenge serial

2026-04-09T01:44:32+00:00

In rxrpc_post_response(), the code should be comparing the challenge serial number from the cached response before deciding to switch to a newer response, but looks at the newer packet private data instead, rendering the comparison always false. Fix this by switching to look at the older packet. Fix further[1] to substitute the new packet in place of the old one if newer and also to release whichever we don't use. Fixes: 5800b1cf3fd8 ("rxrpc: Allow CHALLENGEs to the passed to the app for a RESPONSE") Signed-off-by: Alok Tiwari Signed-off-by: David Howells Reviewed-by: Jeffrey Altman cc: Marc Dionne cc: Simon Horman cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org cc: stable@kernel.org Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260319150150.4189381-1-dhowells%40redhat.com [1] Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260408121252.2249051-7-dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

rxrpc: Fix call removal to use RCU safe deletion

2026-04-09T01:44:32+00:00

Fix rxrpc call removal from the rxnet->calls list to use list_del_rcu() rather than list_del_init() to prevent stuffing up reading /proc/net/rxrpc/calls from potentially getting into an infinite loop. This, however, means that list_empty() no longer works on an entry that's been deleted from the list, making it harder to detect prior deletion. Fix this by: Firstly, make rxrpc_destroy_all_calls() only dump the first ten calls that are unexpectedly still on the list. Limiting the number of steps means there's no need to call cond_resched() or to remove calls from the list here, thereby eliminating the need for rxrpc_put_call() to check for that. rxrpc_put_call() can then be fixed to unconditionally delete the call from the list as it is the only place that the deletion occurs. Fixes: 2baec2c3f854 ("rxrpc: Support network namespacing") Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260319150150.4189381-1-dhowells%40redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Howells cc: Marc Dionne cc: Jeffrey Altman cc: Linus Torvalds cc: Simon Horman cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org cc: stable@kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260408121252.2249051-5-dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

rxrpc: Fix recvmsg() unconditional requeue

2026-01-19T18:07:06+00:00

If rxrpc_recvmsg() fails because MSG_DONTWAIT was specified but the call at the front of the recvmsg queue already has its mutex locked, it requeues the call - whether or not the call is already queued. The call may be on the queue because MSG_PEEK was also passed and so the call was not dequeued or because the I/O thread requeued it. The unconditional requeue may then corrupt the recvmsg queue, leading to things like UAFs or refcount underruns. Fix this by only requeuing the call if it isn't already on the queue - and moving it to the front if it is already queued. If we don't queue it, we have to put the ref we obtained by dequeuing it. Also, MSG_PEEK doesn't dequeue the call so shouldn't call rxrpc_notify_socket() for the call if we didn't use up all the data on the queue, so fix that also. Fixes: 540b1c48c37a ("rxrpc: Fix deadlock between call creation and sendmsg/recvmsg") Reported-by: Faith Reported-by: Pumpkin Chang Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Marc Dionne cc: Nir Ohfeld cc: Willy Tarreau cc: Simon Horman cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org cc: stable@kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/95163.1768428203@warthog.procyon.org.uk Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

rxrpc: Fix notification vs call-release vs recvmsg

2025-07-17T14:50:48+00:00

When a call is released, rxrpc takes the spinlock and removes it from ->recvmsg_q in an effort to prevent racing recvmsg() invocations from seeing the same call. Now, rxrpc_recvmsg() only takes the spinlock when actually removing a call from the queue; it doesn't, however, take it in the lead up to that when it checks to see if the queue is empty. It *does* hold the socket lock, which prevents a recvmsg/recvmsg race - but this doesn't prevent sendmsg from ending the call because sendmsg() drops the socket lock and relies on the call->user_mutex. Fix this by firstly removing the bit in rxrpc_release_call() that dequeues the released call and, instead, rely on recvmsg() to simply discard released calls (done in a preceding fix). Secondly, rxrpc_notify_socket() is abandoned if the call is already marked as released rather than trying to be clever by setting both pointers in call->recvmsg_link to NULL to trick list_empty(). This isn't perfect and can still race, resulting in a released call on the queue, but recvmsg() will now clean that up. Fixes: 17926a79320a ("[AF_RXRPC]: Provide secure RxRPC sockets for use by userspace and kernel both") Signed-off-by: David Howells Reviewed-by: Jeffrey Altman cc: Marc Dionne cc: Junvyyang, Tencent Zhuque Lab cc: LePremierHomme cc: Simon Horman cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250717074350.3767366-4-dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

rxrpc: Fix recv-recv race of completed call

2025-07-17T14:50:48+00:00

If a call receives an event (such as incoming data), the call gets placed on the socket's queue and a thread in recvmsg can be awakened to go and process it. Once the thread has picked up the call off of the queue, further events will cause it to be requeued, and once the socket lock is dropped (recvmsg uses call->user_mutex to allow the socket to be used in parallel), a second thread can come in and its recvmsg can pop the call off the socket queue again. In such a case, the first thread will be receiving stuff from the call and the second thread will be blocked on call->user_mutex. The first thread can, at this point, process both the event that it picked call for and the event that the second thread picked the call for and may see the call terminate - in which case the call will be "released", decoupling the call from the user call ID assigned to it (RXRPC_USER_CALL_ID in the control message). The first thread will return okay, but then the second thread will wake up holding the user_mutex and, if it sees that the call has been released by the first thread, it will BUG thusly: kernel BUG at net/rxrpc/recvmsg.c:474! Fix this by just dequeuing the call and ignoring it if it is seen to be already released. We can't tell userspace about it anyway as the user call ID has become stale. Fixes: 248f219cb8bc ("rxrpc: Rewrite the data and ack handling code") Reported-by: Junvyyang, Tencent Zhuque Lab Signed-off-by: David Howells Reviewed-by: Jeffrey Altman cc: LePremierHomme cc: Marc Dionne cc: Simon Horman cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250717074350.3767366-3-dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

rxrpc: Add more CHALLENGE/RESPONSE packet tracing

2025-04-15T00:36:42+00:00

Add more tracing for CHALLENGE and RESPONSE packets. Currently, rxrpc only has client-relevant tracepoints (rx_challenge and tx_response), but add the server-side ones too. Further, record the service ID in the rx_challenge tracepoint as well. Signed-off-by: David Howells cc: Marc Dionne cc: Simon Horman cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250411095303.2316168-14-dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski