Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] rds: filter RDS_INFO_* getsockopt by caller's netns

From: Simon Horman <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 15:54:27 +0100

From: 'Simon Horman' <[email-masked]>

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rds: filter RDS_INFO_* getsockopt by caller's netns

This commit updates the RDS_INFO_* getsockopt handlers to filter sockets and
connections by the caller's network namespace. This prevents users in
isolated namespaces from reading host-wide socket state.

> diff --git a/net/rds/af_rds.c b/net/rds/af_rds.c
> index 76f625986a7f2..98f3cfd48b813 100644
> --- a/net/rds/af_rds.c
> +++ b/net/rds/af_rds.c
[ ... ]
> @@ -847,17 +859,24 @@ static void rds6_sock_info(struct socket *sock, unsigned int len,
>  			   struct rds_info_iterator *iter,
>  			   struct rds_info_lengths *lens)
>  {
> +	struct net *net = sock_net(sock->sk);
>  	struct rds6_info_socket sinfo6;
> +	unsigned int cnt = 0;
>  	struct rds_sock *rs;
>  
>  	len /= sizeof(struct rds6_info_socket);
>  
>  	spin_lock_bh(&rds_sock_lock);
>  
> -	if (len < rds_sock_count)
> +	if (len < rds_sock_count) {
> +		cnt = rds_sock_count;
>  		goto out;
> +	}

Does this early-out check using the global rds_sock_count break the namespace
isolation and force callers to over-allocate memory?

If a user in an isolated network namespace provides a 0-length buffer to probe
the required size, len < rds_sock_count evaluates to true and the global count
is returned to userspace. Could this allow a user to track the exact host-wide
number of RDS sockets?

Additionally, if an isolated container has 1 socket but the host system has
thousands, the kernel might reject a correctly sized buffer with -ENOSPC and
demand a buffer large enough for all system-wide sockets. Is it possible to
remove this global counter check and always iterate the list to return the
exact netns-filtered count?

Simon says: I'm not convinced that the issue flagged above is a bug.
            But it does seem suboptimal to me.

>  	list_for_each_entry(rs, &rds_sock_list, rs_item) {
> +		/* Only show sockets in the caller's netns. */
> +		if (!net_eq(sock_net(rds_rs_to_sk(rs)), net))
> +			continue;
[ ... ]
> diff --git a/net/rds/tcp.c b/net/rds/tcp.c
> index 654e23d13e3df..ef9e958cafb4f 100644
> --- a/net/rds/tcp.c
> +++ b/net/rds/tcp.c
[ ... ]
> @@ -235,20 +235,27 @@ static void rds_tcp_tc_info(struct socket *rds_sock, unsigned int len,
>  			    struct rds_info_iterator *iter,
>  			    struct rds_info_lengths *lens)
>  {
[ ... ]
>  	list_for_each_entry(tc, &rds_tcp_tc_list, t_list_item) {
>  		struct inet_sock *inet = inet_sk(tc->t_sock->sk);

Simon says: As a pre-existing issue I don't think this needs to block
            progress of this patch. But it does seem worth investigating
	    (perhaps that is already happening?).

Can concurrent getsockopt calls trigger a NULL pointer dereference here?

While this isn't a regression introduced by this patch, it appears there is
a race condition during list traversal. Looking at rds_tcp_set_callbacks(), a
newly allocated connection tc is added to rds_tcp_tc_list under the lock, but
the lock is released before tc->t_sock is assigned:

rds_tcp_set_callbacks() {
    spin_lock(&rds_tcp_tc_list_lock);
    list_add_tail(&tc->t_list_item, &rds_tcp_tc_list);
    ...
    spin_unlock(&rds_tcp_tc_list_lock);
    ...
    tc->t_sock = sock;
}

If a caller concurrently executes this getsockopt handler during that window,
it would acquire the lock, observe the new entry, and attempt to evaluate
inet_sk(tc->t_sock->sk). Since tc->t_sock is still NULL, would dereferencing
NULL->sk result in a panic?

>  		if (tc->t_cpath->cp_conn->c_isv6)
>  			continue;
> +		/* Only show connections in the caller's netns. */
> +		if (!net_eq(rds_conn_net(tc->t_cpath->cp_conn), net))
> +			continue;
>  
>  		tsinfo.local_addr = inet->inet_saddr;