[PATCH] RDMA/rxe: fix UDP tunnel socket leak on rxe_newlink failure
From: Purushothaman Ramalingam
Date: Fri May 29 2026 - 20:14:54 EST
rxe_newlink() calls rxe_net_init() to set up the per-net-namespace UDP
tunnel sockets before calling rxe_net_add() to create and register the
rxe device. rxe_net_init() takes a reference on the IPv4 and IPv6 tunnel
sockets, creating them if they do not already exist.
If rxe_net_add() subsequently fails, rxe_newlink() returns the error
without releasing those socket references. The normal teardown path,
rxe_net_del(), is never reached because rxe_net_add() has already
deallocated the rxe device on failure. As a result the tunnel socket
references are leaked and the per-net sockets bound to UDP port 4791 can
never be released.
Release the references on the error path by adding rxe_net_uninit(),
which performs the same socket teardown as rxe_net_del(). The shared
release logic is factored into a helper to avoid duplication.
Fixes: f1327abd6abe ("RDMA/rxe: Support RDMA link creation and destruction per net namespace")
Signed-off-by: Purushothaman Ramalingam <purush.ramalingam@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe.c | 1 +
drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_net.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++---------
drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_net.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe.c b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe.c
index af39209d0fcf..bcc72b96ee00 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe.c
@@ -243,6 +243,7 @@ static int rxe_newlink(const char *ibdev_name, struct net_device *ndev)
err = rxe_net_add(ibdev_name, ndev);
if (err) {
rxe_err("failed to add %s\n", ndev->name);
+ rxe_net_uninit(ndev);
goto err;
}
err:
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_net.c b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_net.c
index 50a2cb5405e2..b98f66099dea 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_net.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_net.c
@@ -642,18 +642,10 @@ static void rxe_sock_put(struct sock *sk,
}
}
-void rxe_net_del(struct ib_device *dev)
+/* release the per-net-namespace tunnel socket references held for @net */
+static void rxe_release_sockets(struct net *net)
{
- struct rxe_dev *rxe = container_of(dev, struct rxe_dev, ib_dev);
- struct net_device *ndev;
struct sock *sk;
- struct net *net;
-
- ndev = rxe_ib_device_get_netdev(&rxe->ib_dev);
- if (!ndev)
- return;
-
- net = dev_net(ndev);
sk = rxe_ns_pernet_sk4(net);
if (sk)
@@ -662,6 +654,26 @@ void rxe_net_del(struct ib_device *dev)
sk = rxe_ns_pernet_sk6(net);
if (sk)
rxe_sock_put(sk, rxe_ns_pernet_set_sk6, net);
+}
+
+/* release the socket references taken by a successful rxe_net_init() when a
+ * later step of device creation fails and rxe_net_del() will not be called
+ */
+void rxe_net_uninit(struct net_device *ndev)
+{
+ rxe_release_sockets(dev_net(ndev));
+}
+
+void rxe_net_del(struct ib_device *dev)
+{
+ struct rxe_dev *rxe = container_of(dev, struct rxe_dev, ib_dev);
+ struct net_device *ndev;
+
+ ndev = rxe_ib_device_get_netdev(&rxe->ib_dev);
+ if (!ndev)
+ return;
+
+ rxe_release_sockets(dev_net(ndev));
dev_put(ndev);
}
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_net.h b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_net.h
index 56249677d692..d55aacce2905 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_net.h
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_net.h
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ void rxe_net_del(struct ib_device *dev);
int rxe_register_notifier(void);
int rxe_net_init(struct net_device *ndev);
+void rxe_net_uninit(struct net_device *ndev);
void rxe_net_exit(void);
#endif /* RXE_NET_H */
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2.53.0