This is a latent bug. xdr_stream_pos works by subtracting xdr_stream::nwords from xdr_buf::len. But xdr_stream::nwords is not initialized by xdr_init_encode(). It works today only because all fields in rpcrdma_req::rl_stream are initialized to zero by rpcrdma_req_create, making the subtraction in xdr_stream_pos always a no-op. I found this issue via code inspection. It was introduced by commit 39f4cd9e9982 ("xprtrdma: Harden chunk list encoding against send buffer overflow"), but the code has changed enough since then that this fix can't be automatically applied to stable. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/rpc_rdma.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/rpc_rdma.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/rpc_rdma.c index 85115a2..608b9ac 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/rpc_rdma.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/rpc_rdma.c @@ -867,9 +867,9 @@ static bool rpcrdma_prepare_msg_sges(struct rpcrdma_xprt *r_xprt, if (ret) goto out_err; - trace_xprtrdma_marshal(rqst, xdr_stream_pos(xdr), rtype, wtype); + trace_xprtrdma_marshal(rqst, req->rl_hdrbuf.len, rtype, wtype); - ret = rpcrdma_prepare_send_sges(r_xprt, req, xdr_stream_pos(xdr), + ret = rpcrdma_prepare_send_sges(r_xprt, req, req->rl_hdrbuf.len, &rqst->rq_snd_buf, rtype); if (ret) goto out_err;