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Yunseong Kim db82fbe4bb smb: smbdirect: release pending child sockets outside the handler lock
smbdirect_socket_destroy() releases the listener's pending/ready child
sockets while still holding the listener's handler lock, the
&id_priv->handler_mutex taken via rdma_lock_handler(), not
sc->listen.lock, and before the listener's own rdma_destroy_id().
That ordering has one real consequence and one cosmetic one.

The real one: smbdirect_socket_release() drops the child's last
reference, which destroys the child's cm_id.  Doing that before the
listener's rdma_destroy_id() lets _cma_cancel_listens(), running from
the listener's _destroy_id(), walk an already freed child id_priv,
which KASAN catches as a slab-use-after-free during listener shutdown:

[ 4758.909130] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __mutex_lock+0x1469/0x1560
[ 4758.911450] Read of size 1 at addr ffff88821c381db4 by task ksmbd.control/1652
[ 4758.913262] Call Trace:
[ 4758.913267]  <TASK>
[ 4758.913299]  __mutex_lock+0x1469/0x1560
[ 4758.913408]  _cma_cancel_listens+0x312/0x3b0
[ 4758.913413]  _destroy_id+0x363/0xee0
[ 4758.913417]  smbdirect_socket_destroy_sync+0x17d5/0x2440
[ 4758.913443]  smbdirect_socket_release+0x124/0x230
[ 4758.913451]  ksmbd_rdma_stop_listening+0x9f/0x190
[ 4758.913457]  ksmbd_conn_transport_destroy+0x65/0x3c0
[ 4758.913463]  kill_server_store+0x1fb/0x2b0
[ 4758.913501]  kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x349/0x4d0
[ 4758.913507]  vfs_write+0x5e7/0xc70
[ 4758.913528]  ksys_write+0x12a/0x210
[ 4758.913541]  do_syscall_64+0x135/0x460
[ 4758.913555]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The cosmetic one: releasing a child recurses into
smbdirect_socket_destroy(), which takes the child's own
rdma_lock_handler() lock nested under the listener's.  The listener's
and the child's cm_id are always different instances, so this cannot
deadlock for real; the CM core itself nests a new connection id's
handler_mutex under the listening id's in cma_ib_req_handler().  But
lockdep only sees one lock class, reports possible recursive locking,
and then disables itself, hiding real locking bugs for the rest of the
run:

[ 2424.579653] WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
[ 2424.581180] 7.1.0-next-20260623+ #89 Not tainted
[ 2424.582548] --------------------------------------------
[ 2424.584500] ksmbd.control/8854 is trying to acquire lock:
[ 2424.586817] ffff888102303c20 (&id_priv->handler_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: smbdirect_socket_destroy_sync+0xc39/0x2440
[ 2424.590590]
[ 2424.590590] but task is already holding lock:
[ 2424.591601] ffff888102046c20 (&id_priv->handler_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: smbdirect_socket_destroy_sync+0xc39/0x2440
[ 2424.594178]
[ 2424.594178] other info that might help us debug this:
[ 2424.596634]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[ 2424.596634]
[ 2424.598841]        CPU0
[ 2424.599765]        ----
[ 2424.600695]   lock(&id_priv->handler_mutex);
[ 2424.601836]   lock(&id_priv->handler_mutex);
[ 2424.602590]
[ 2424.602590]  *** DEADLOCK ***
[ 2424.602590]
[ 2424.604512]  May be due to missing lock nesting notation

Splice the pending/ready children onto a local list under the
listener's listen.lock, while the handler lock is held so a concurrent
CM CONNECT_REQUEST cannot add more, but defer the actual
smbdirect_socket_release() calls until after the listener's cm_id has
been destroyed and its handler lock dropped.  The children are
independent sockets whose teardown needs neither the listener's
handler lock nor its cm_id.

Found with ksmbdzzer [2], a KSMBD fuzzer that drives libFuzzer with a
kcov-dataflow [1] coverage vector: it folds each instrumented
comparison/argument's runtime operand value together with its PC (the
default arm mixes them as pc⊕val) so that a new operand value at a known
site counts as new coverage.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/1077606/
[2] https://github.com/yskzalloc/kcov-dataflow

Fixes: dc691b91ad ("smb: smbdirect: introduce smbdirect_socket_{listen,accept}()")
Signed-off-by: Yunseong Kim <yunseong.kim@est.tech>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
2026-08-17 15:00:51 +09:00
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