[PATCH v2] RDMA/rxe: Fix race in do_task() when draining

From: Gui-Dong Han

Date: Thu Sep 18 2025 - 22:52:51 EST


When do_task() exhausts its iteration budget (!ret), it sets the state
to TASK_STATE_IDLE to reschedule, without a secondary check on the
current task->state. This can overwrite the TASK_STATE_DRAINING state
set by a concurrent call to rxe_cleanup_task() or rxe_disable_task().

While state changes are protected by a spinlock, both rxe_cleanup_task()
and rxe_disable_task() release the lock while waiting for the task to
finish draining in the while(!is_done(task)) loop. The race occurs if
do_task() hits its iteration limit and acquires the lock in this window.
The cleanup logic may then proceed while the task incorrectly
reschedules itself, leading to a potential use-after-free.

This bug was introduced during the migration from tasklets to workqueues,
where the special handling for the draining case was lost.

Fix this by restoring the original pre-migration behavior. If the state is
TASK_STATE_DRAINING when iterations are exhausted, set cont to 1 to
force a new loop iteration. This allows the task to finish its work, so
that a subsequent iteration can reach the switch statement and correctly
transition the state to TASK_STATE_DRAINED, stopping the task as intended.

Fixes: 9b4b7c1f9f54 ("RDMA/rxe: Add workqueue support for rxe tasks")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Gui-Dong Han <hanguidong02@xxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
* Rewrite commit message for clarity. Thanks to Zhu Yanjun for the review.
---
drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_task.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_task.c b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_task.c
index 6f8f353e9583..f522820b950c 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_task.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_task.c
@@ -132,8 +132,12 @@ static void do_task(struct rxe_task *task)
* yield the cpu and reschedule the task
*/
if (!ret) {
- task->state = TASK_STATE_IDLE;
- resched = 1;
+ if (task->state != TASK_STATE_DRAINING) {
+ task->state = TASK_STATE_IDLE;
+ resched = 1;
+ } else {
+ cont = 1;
+ }
goto exit;
}

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