SMC connections might fail to be registered to a link group due to things like unable to find a link to assign to in its creation. As a result, connection creation will return a failure and most resources related to the connection won't be applied or initialized, such as conn->abort_work or conn->lnk. If smc_conn_free() is invoked later, it will try to access the resources related to the connection, which wasn't initialized, thus causing a panic. Here is an example, a SMC-R connection failed to be registered to a link group and conn->lnk is NULL. The following crash will happen if smc_conn_free() tries to access conn->lnk in smc_cdc_tx_dismiss_slots(). BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000168 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI CPU: 4 PID: 68 Comm: kworker/4:1 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G E 5.16.0-rc5+ #52 Workqueue: smc_hs_wq smc_listen_work [smc] RIP: 0010:smc_wr_tx_dismiss_slots+0x1e/0xc0 [smc] Call Trace: <TASK> smc_conn_free+0xd8/0x100 [smc] smc_lgr_cleanup_early+0x15/0x90 [smc] smc_listen_work+0x302/0x1230 [smc] ? process_one_work+0x25c/0x600 process_one_work+0x25c/0x600 worker_thread+0x4f/0x3a0 ? process_one_work+0x600/0x600 kthread+0x15d/0x1a0 ? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 </TASK> This patch tries to fix this by resetting conn->lgr to NULL if an abnormal exit due to lgr register failure occurs in smc_conn_create(), thus avoiding the crash caused by accessing the uninitialized resources in smc_conn_free(). Signed-off-by: Wen Gu <guwen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/smc/smc_core.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/smc/smc_core.c b/net/smc/smc_core.c index 412bc85..1f40b8e 100644 --- a/net/smc/smc_core.c +++ b/net/smc/smc_core.c @@ -1815,7 +1815,7 @@ int smc_conn_create(struct smc_sock *smc, struct smc_init_info *ini) } spin_unlock_bh(lgr_lock); if (rc) - return rc; + goto out_unreg; if (role == SMC_CLNT && !ini->first_contact_peer && ini->first_contact_local) { @@ -1836,7 +1836,7 @@ int smc_conn_create(struct smc_sock *smc, struct smc_init_info *ini) rc = smc_lgr_register_conn(conn, true); write_unlock_bh(&lgr->conns_lock); if (rc) - goto out; + goto out_unreg; } conn->local_tx_ctrl.common.type = SMC_CDC_MSG_TYPE; conn->local_tx_ctrl.len = SMC_WR_TX_SIZE; @@ -1855,6 +1855,12 @@ int smc_conn_create(struct smc_sock *smc, struct smc_init_info *ini) out: return rc; +out_unreg: + /* fail to register connection into a link group */ + if (!lgr->conns_num && !delayed_work_pending(&lgr->free_work)) + smc_lgr_schedule_free_work(lgr); + conn->lgr = NULL; + return rc; } #define SMCD_DMBE_SIZES 6 /* 0 -> 16KB, 1 -> 32KB, .. 6 -> 1MB */ -- 1.8.3.1