Subject: [PATCH v1 3/6] tls: Suppress spurious saved_data_ready during read_sock

From: Chuck Lever <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2026 16:13:59 -0500

From: Chuck Lever <[email-masked]>

During tls_sw_read_sock(), each record release triggers
tls_strp_msg_done(), which calls back through the strparser into
saved_data_ready(). For a batch of N records, the first N-1
wakeups are pure overhead: the read_sock callback is already
running and will pick up subsequent records on the next iteration.

Remove the per-record wakeup from the record-release path by
introducing tls_rx_rec_release(), which calls
tls_strp_msg_release() instead of tls_strp_msg_done(). Factor
tls_rx_msg_ready() out of tls_strp_read_sock() so that parsing a
record no longer fires the callback directly, and introduce
tls_strp_check_rcv_quiet() for use in tls_rx_rec_wait(), which
parses queued data without notifying. A single
tls_strp_check_rcv() at the read_sock_end exit point fires at
most one notification, and only when data remains after the loop
exits.

Acked-by: Alistair Francis <[email-masked]>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <[email-masked]>
---
 net/tls/tls.h      |  1 +
 net/tls/tls_strp.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
 net/tls/tls_sw.c   | 13 +++++++++++--
 3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/tls/tls.h b/net/tls/tls.h
index a97f1acef31d..d58d86e8e43e 100644
--- a/net/tls/tls.h
+++ b/net/tls/tls.h
@@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ int tls_strp_init(struct tls_strparser *strp, struct sock *sk);
 void tls_strp_data_ready(struct tls_strparser *strp);
 
 void tls_strp_check_rcv(struct tls_strparser *strp);
+void tls_strp_check_rcv_quiet(struct tls_strparser *strp);
 void tls_strp_msg_release(struct tls_strparser *strp);
 void tls_strp_msg_done(struct tls_strparser *strp);
 
diff --git a/net/tls/tls_strp.c b/net/tls/tls_strp.c
index a7648ebde162..7b9f5051becb 100644
--- a/net/tls/tls_strp.c
+++ b/net/tls/tls_strp.c
@@ -368,7 +368,6 @@ static int tls_strp_copyin(read_descriptor_t *desc, struct sk_buff *in_skb,
 		desc->count = 0;
 
 		WRITE_ONCE(strp->msg_ready, 1);
-		tls_rx_msg_ready(strp);
 	}
 
 	return ret;
@@ -539,11 +538,27 @@ static int tls_strp_read_sock(struct tls_strparser *strp)
 		return tls_strp_read_copy(strp, false);
 
 	WRITE_ONCE(strp->msg_ready, 1);
-	tls_rx_msg_ready(strp);
 
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/**
+ * tls_strp_check_rcv_quiet - parse without consumer notification
+ * @strp: TLS stream parser instance
+ *
+ * Parse queued data without firing the consumer notification. A subsequent
+ * tls_strp_check_rcv() is required before the socket lock is released;
+ * otherwise queued data stalls until the next tls_strp_data_ready() event.
+ */
+void tls_strp_check_rcv_quiet(struct tls_strparser *strp)
+{
+	if (unlikely(strp->stopped) || strp->msg_ready)
+		return;
+
+	if (tls_strp_read_sock(strp) == -ENOMEM)
+		queue_work(tls_strp_wq, &strp->work);
+}
+
 void tls_strp_check_rcv(struct tls_strparser *strp)
 {
 	if (unlikely(strp->stopped) || strp->msg_ready)
@@ -551,6 +566,8 @@ void tls_strp_check_rcv(struct tls_strparser *strp)
 
 	if (tls_strp_read_sock(strp) == -ENOMEM)
 		queue_work(tls_strp_wq, &strp->work);
+	else if (strp->msg_ready)
+		tls_rx_msg_ready(strp);
 }
 
 /* Lower sock lock held */
diff --git a/net/tls/tls_sw.c b/net/tls/tls_sw.c
index 108d417dcfb7..a5905f4c1ae2 100644
--- a/net/tls/tls_sw.c
+++ b/net/tls/tls_sw.c
@@ -1372,7 +1372,10 @@ tls_rx_rec_wait(struct sock *sk, struct sk_psock *psock, bool nonblock,
 			return ret;
 
 		if (!skb_queue_empty(&sk->sk_receive_queue)) {
-			tls_strp_check_rcv(&ctx->strp);
+			/* tls_strp_check_rcv() is called on the read_sock_end
+			 * path before the socket lock is released.
+			 */
+			tls_strp_check_rcv_quiet(&ctx->strp);
 			if (tls_strp_msg_ready(ctx))
 				break;
 		}
@@ -1853,6 +1856,11 @@ static int tls_record_content_type(struct msghdr *msg, struct tls_msg *tlm,
 	return 1;
 }
 
+static void tls_rx_rec_release(struct tls_sw_context_rx *ctx)
+{
+	tls_strp_msg_release(&ctx->strp);
+}
+
 static void tls_rx_rec_done(struct tls_sw_context_rx *ctx)
 {
 	tls_strp_msg_done(&ctx->strp);
@@ -2383,7 +2391,7 @@ int tls_sw_read_sock(struct sock *sk, read_descriptor_t *desc,
 			tlm = tls_msg(skb);
 			decrypted += rxm->full_len;
 
-			tls_rx_rec_done(ctx);
+			tls_rx_rec_release(ctx);
 		}
 
 		/* read_sock does not support reading control messages */
@@ -2413,6 +2421,7 @@ int tls_sw_read_sock(struct sock *sk, read_descriptor_t *desc,
 	}
 
 read_sock_end:
+	tls_strp_check_rcv(&ctx->strp);
 	tls_rx_reader_release(sk, ctx);
 	return copied ? : err;
 
-- 
2.53.0