From c479bde671cbe2f9e152834a8b0eb7c3c295bbaf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Layton Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:00:47 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] sunrpc: defer rq_argp and rq_resp free until after RCU grace period MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit svc_rqst_free() frees rqstp->rq_argp and rqstp->rq_resp synchronously via kfree(), but defers the rqstp struct free via kfree_rcu(). After svc_exit_thread() calls list_del_rcu() and svc_rqst_free(), there is a window where RCU readers that started before list_del_rcu() can still traverse the thread list and find the rqstp. These readers (e.g. nfsd_nl_rpc_status_get_dumpit()) dereference rqstp->rq_argp, which has already been freed — a use-after-free. Fix this by moving the kfree of rq_argp and rq_resp into an explicit call_rcu() callback alongside the struct free. Resources not accessed by RCU readers (bvec, buffer pages, scratch folio, auth_data) remain synchronously freed. Fixes: 812443865c5f ("sunrpc: add a rcu_head to svc_rqst and use kfree_rcu to free it") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260611-nfsd-testing-v2-4-5b90e276f2d9@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever --- net/sunrpc/svc.c | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svc.c b/net/sunrpc/svc.c index 86d39610cf0a..dd80a2eaaa74 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/svc.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/svc.c @@ -716,6 +716,15 @@ svc_release_buffer(struct svc_rqst *rqstp) } } +static void svc_rqst_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *head) +{ + struct svc_rqst *rqstp = container_of(head, struct svc_rqst, rq_rcu_head); + + kfree(rqstp->rq_resp); + kfree(rqstp->rq_argp); + kfree(rqstp); +} + static void svc_rqst_free(struct svc_rqst *rqstp) { @@ -724,10 +733,8 @@ svc_rqst_free(struct svc_rqst *rqstp) svc_release_buffer(rqstp); if (rqstp->rq_scratch_folio) folio_put(rqstp->rq_scratch_folio); - kfree(rqstp->rq_resp); - kfree(rqstp->rq_argp); kfree(rqstp->rq_auth_data); - kfree_rcu(rqstp, rq_rcu_head); + call_rcu(&rqstp->rq_rcu_head, svc_rqst_free_rcu); } static struct svc_rqst *