Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 2/4] net/rds: Delegate fan-out to a background worker

From: Allison Henderson <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2026 22:37:14 -0700

From: Gerd Rausch <[email-masked]>

Delegate fan-out to a background worker in order to allow
kernel_getpeername() to acquire a lock on the socket.

This has become necessary since the introduction of
commit "9dfc685e0262d ("inet: remove races in inet{6}_getname()")

The socket is already locked in the context that
"kernel_getpeername" used to get called by either
rds_tcp_recv_path" or "tcp_v{4,6}_rcv",
and therefore causing a deadlock.

Luckily, the fan-out need not happen in-context nor fast,
so we can easily just do the same in a background worker.

Also, while we're doing this, we get rid of the unused
struct members "t_conn_w", "t_send_w", "t_down_w" & "t_recv_w".

Reported-by: [email-masked]
Link: https://ci.syzbot.org/series/1a5ef180-c02c-401d-9df7-670b18570a55
Signed-off-by: Gerd Rausch <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <[email-masked]>
---
 net/rds/tcp.c         |  3 +++
 net/rds/tcp.h         |  7 ++----
 net/rds/tcp_connect.c |  2 ++
 net/rds/tcp_listen.c  | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 4 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/rds/tcp.c b/net/rds/tcp.c
index 45484a93d75f..02f8f928c20b 100644
--- a/net/rds/tcp.c
+++ b/net/rds/tcp.c
@@ -358,6 +358,8 @@ static void rds_tcp_conn_free(void *arg)
 
 	rdsdebug("freeing tc %p\n", tc);
 
+	cancel_work_sync(&tc->t_fan_out_w);
+
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&rds_tcp_conn_lock, flags);
 	if (!tc->t_tcp_node_detached)
 		list_del(&tc->t_tcp_node);
@@ -384,6 +386,7 @@ static int rds_tcp_conn_alloc(struct rds_connection *conn, gfp_t gfp)
 		tc->t_tinc = NULL;
 		tc->t_tinc_hdr_rem = sizeof(struct rds_header);
 		tc->t_tinc_data_rem = 0;
+		INIT_WORK(&tc->t_fan_out_w, rds_tcp_fan_out_w);
 		init_waitqueue_head(&tc->t_recv_done_waitq);
 
 		conn->c_path[i].cp_transport_data = tc;
diff --git a/net/rds/tcp.h b/net/rds/tcp.h
index 39c86347188c..9ecb0b6b658a 100644
--- a/net/rds/tcp.h
+++ b/net/rds/tcp.h
@@ -44,11 +44,7 @@ struct rds_tcp_connection {
 	size_t			t_tinc_hdr_rem;
 	size_t			t_tinc_data_rem;
 
-	/* XXX error report? */
-	struct work_struct	t_conn_w;
-	struct work_struct	t_send_w;
-	struct work_struct	t_down_w;
-	struct work_struct	t_recv_w;
+	struct work_struct	t_fan_out_w;
 
 	/* for info exporting only */
 	struct list_head	t_list_item;
@@ -90,6 +86,7 @@ void rds_tcp_state_change(struct sock *sk);
 struct socket *rds_tcp_listen_init(struct net *net, bool isv6);
 void rds_tcp_listen_stop(struct socket *sock, struct work_struct *acceptor);
 void rds_tcp_listen_data_ready(struct sock *sk);
+void rds_tcp_fan_out_w(struct work_struct *work);
 void rds_tcp_conn_slots_available(struct rds_connection *conn, bool fan_out);
 int rds_tcp_accept_one(struct rds_tcp_net *rtn);
 void rds_tcp_keepalive(struct socket *sock);
diff --git a/net/rds/tcp_connect.c b/net/rds/tcp_connect.c
index b77c88ffb199..6954b8c479f1 100644
--- a/net/rds/tcp_connect.c
+++ b/net/rds/tcp_connect.c
@@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ int rds_tcp_conn_path_connect(struct rds_conn_path *cp)
 	if (cp->cp_index > 0 && cp->cp_conn->c_npaths < 2)
 		return -EAGAIN;
 
+	cancel_work_sync(&tc->t_fan_out_w);
+
 	mutex_lock(&tc->t_conn_path_lock);
 
 	if (rds_conn_path_up(cp)) {
diff --git a/net/rds/tcp_listen.c b/net/rds/tcp_listen.c
index 6fb5c928b8fd..8fb8f7d26683 100644
--- a/net/rds/tcp_listen.c
+++ b/net/rds/tcp_listen.c
@@ -123,27 +123,20 @@ rds_tcp_accept_one_path(struct rds_connection *conn, struct socket *sock)
 	return NULL;
 }
 
-void rds_tcp_conn_slots_available(struct rds_connection *conn, bool fan_out)
+void rds_tcp_fan_out_w(struct work_struct *work)
 {
-	struct rds_tcp_connection *tc;
-	struct rds_tcp_net *rtn;
-	struct socket *sock;
+	struct rds_tcp_connection *tc = container_of(work,
+						     struct rds_tcp_connection,
+						     t_fan_out_w);
+	struct rds_connection *conn = tc->t_cpath->cp_conn;
+	struct rds_tcp_net *rtn = tc->t_rtn;
+	struct socket *sock = tc->t_sock;
 	int sport, npaths;
 
-	if (rds_destroy_pending(conn))
-		return;
-
-	tc = conn->c_path->cp_transport_data;
-	rtn = tc->t_rtn;
-	if (!rtn)
-		return;
-
-	sock = tc->t_sock;
-
 	/* During fan-out, check that the connection we already
 	 * accepted in slot#0 carried the proper source port modulo.
 	 */
-	if (fan_out && conn->c_with_sport_idx && sock &&
+	if (conn->c_with_sport_idx && sock &&
 	    rds_addr_cmp(&conn->c_laddr, &conn->c_faddr) > 0) {
 		/* cp->cp_index is encoded in lowest bits of source-port */
 		sport = rds_tcp_get_peer_sport(sock);
@@ -167,6 +160,37 @@ void rds_tcp_conn_slots_available(struct rds_connection *conn, bool fan_out)
 	rds_tcp_accept_work(rtn);
 }
 
+void rds_tcp_conn_slots_available(struct rds_connection *conn, bool fan_out)
+{
+	struct rds_conn_path *cp0;
+	struct rds_tcp_connection *tc;
+	struct rds_tcp_net *rtn;
+
+	if (rds_destroy_pending(conn))
+		return;
+
+	cp0 = conn->c_path;
+	tc = cp0->cp_transport_data;
+	rtn = tc->t_rtn;
+	if (!rtn)
+		return;
+
+	if (fan_out)
+		/* Delegate fan-out to a background worker in order
+		 * to allow "kernel_getpeername" to acquire a lock
+		 * on the socket.
+		 * The socket is already locked in this context
+		 * by either "rds_tcp_recv_path" or "tcp_v{4,6}_rcv",
+		 * depending on the origin of the dequeue-request.
+		 */
+		queue_work(cp0->cp_wq, &tc->t_fan_out_w);
+	else
+		/* Fan-out either already happened or is unnecessary.
+		 * Just go ahead and attempt to accept more connections
+		 */
+		rds_tcp_accept_work(rtn);
+}
+
 int rds_tcp_accept_one(struct rds_tcp_net *rtn)
 {
 	struct socket *listen_sock = rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock;
-- 
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