[PATCH net v6 02/10] rxrpc: Fix packet encryption error handling

From: David Howells

Date: Tue Aug 04 2026 - 13:33:38 EST


In rxrpc_send_data(), if ->secure_packet() returns an error, the code
currently just jumps to out: and returns the error to the app on the
assumption that any error returned by this is automatically fatal for the
call, and may even have corrupted the transmission queue - but leaving it
to userspace to deal with. Nothing stops the application from retrying the
sendmsg(), which will try to encrypt the buffer again, and might succeed
with a corrupt buffer.

Fix rxrpc_send_data() in the following ways:

(1) If -ENOMEM is returned, assume we never got as far as the encryption
and that the operation is retryable. In which case, jump to
maybe_error_rewind and, if we've copied data into the last packet,
remove a byte from it so that we don't tell the caller that we've
completed the transmission phase.

(2) If any other error occurs, set the TX_ERROR flag on the call and
return that error directly; on all subsequent attempts to add data to
the call, return -EIO. The app must then abort the call to get rid of
it (this allows the app to choose the abort code to use).

Fixes: 17926a79320a ("[AF_RXRPC]: Provide secure RxRPC sockets for use by userspace and kernel both")
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260702144919.172295-1-dhowells%40redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: linux-afs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
---
fs/afs/rxrpc.c | 22 +++++++++------
include/trace/events/rxrpc.h | 1 +
net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h | 1 +
net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
4 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/afs/rxrpc.c b/fs/afs/rxrpc.c
index d82916657a3d..b435f4b2da7f 100644
--- a/fs/afs/rxrpc.c
+++ b/fs/afs/rxrpc.c
@@ -412,21 +412,25 @@ void afs_make_call(struct afs_call *call, gfp_t gfp)
msg.msg_controllen = 0;
msg.msg_flags = MSG_WAITALL | (call->write_iter ? MSG_MORE : 0);

- ret = rxrpc_kernel_send_data(call->net->socket, rxcall,
- &msg, call->request_size,
- afs_notify_end_request_tx);
- if (ret < 0)
- goto error_do_abort;
+ do {
+ ret = rxrpc_kernel_send_data(call->net->socket, rxcall,
+ &msg, call->request_size,
+ afs_notify_end_request_tx);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ goto error_do_abort;
+ } while (iov_iter_count(&msg.msg_iter) > 0);

if (call->write_iter) {
msg.msg_iter = *call->write_iter;
msg.msg_flags &= ~MSG_MORE;
trace_afs_send_data(call, &msg);

- ret = rxrpc_kernel_send_data(call->net->socket,
- call->rxcall, &msg,
- iov_iter_count(&msg.msg_iter),
- afs_notify_end_request_tx);
+ do {
+ ret = rxrpc_kernel_send_data(call->net->socket,
+ call->rxcall, &msg,
+ iov_iter_count(&msg.msg_iter),
+ afs_notify_end_request_tx);
+ } while (iov_iter_count(&msg.msg_iter) > 0);
*call->write_iter = msg.msg_iter;

trace_afs_sent_data(call, &msg, ret);
diff --git a/include/trace/events/rxrpc.h b/include/trace/events/rxrpc.h
index 704a10de6670..8f3e3967885a 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/rxrpc.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/rxrpc.h
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@
EM(rxrpc_eproto_wrong_security, "wrong-sec") \
EM(rxrpc_recvmsg_excess_data, "recvmsg-excess") \
EM(rxrpc_recvmsg_short_data, "recvmsg-short") \
+ EM(rxrpc_sendmsg_tx_error, "tx-error") \
E_(rxrpc_sendmsg_late_send, "sendmsg-late")

#define rxrpc_call_poke_traces \
diff --git a/net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h b/net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h
index 865f05fe37ab..a6f830c1621f 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h
+++ b/net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h
@@ -642,6 +642,7 @@ enum rxrpc_call_flag {
RXRPC_CALL_TX_LAST, /* Last packet in Tx buffer (at rxtx_top) */
RXRPC_CALL_TX_ALL_ACKED, /* Last packet has been hard-acked */
RXRPC_CALL_TX_NO_MORE, /* No more data to transmit (MSG_MORE deasserted) */
+ RXRPC_CALL_TX_ERROR, /* Terminal error; call needs abort */
RXRPC_CALL_SEND_PING, /* A ping will need to be sent */
RXRPC_CALL_RETRANS_TIMEOUT, /* Retransmission due to timeout occurred */
RXRPC_CALL_BEGAN_RX_TIMER, /* We began the expect_rx_by timer */
diff --git a/net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c b/net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c
index 4c754f78ece9..5ea10dc497a7 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c
@@ -330,13 +330,6 @@ static int rxrpc_send_data(struct rxrpc_sock *rx,
bool more = msg->msg_flags & MSG_MORE;
int ret, copied = 0;

- if (test_bit(RXRPC_CALL_TX_NO_MORE, &call->flags)) {
- trace_rxrpc_abort(call->debug_id, rxrpc_sendmsg_late_send,
- call->cid, call->call_id, call->rx_consumed,
- 0, -EPROTO);
- return -EPROTO;
- }
-
timeo = sock_sndtimeo(sk, msg->msg_flags & MSG_DONTWAIT);

ret = rxrpc_wait_to_be_connected(call, &timeo);
@@ -353,6 +346,19 @@ static int rxrpc_send_data(struct rxrpc_sock *rx,
sk_clear_bit(SOCKWQ_ASYNC_NOSPACE, sk);

reload:
+ if (unlikely(test_bit(RXRPC_CALL_TX_NO_MORE, &call->flags))) {
+ trace_rxrpc_abort(call->debug_id, rxrpc_sendmsg_late_send,
+ call->cid, call->call_id, call->rx_consumed,
+ 0, -EPROTO);
+ return -EPROTO;
+ }
+ if (unlikely(test_bit(RXRPC_CALL_TX_ERROR, &call->flags))) {
+ trace_rxrpc_abort(call->debug_id, rxrpc_sendmsg_tx_error,
+ call->cid, call->call_id, call->rx_consumed,
+ 0, -EIO);
+ return -EIO;
+ }
+
txb = call->tx_pending;
call->tx_pending = NULL;
if (txb)
@@ -440,12 +446,21 @@ static int rxrpc_send_data(struct rxrpc_sock *rx,
/* add the packet to the send queue if it's now full */
if (!txb->space ||
(msg_data_left(msg) == 0 && !more)) {
- if (msg_data_left(msg) == 0 && !more)
- txb->flags |= RXRPC_LAST_PACKET;
-
+ /* Do any required crypto. If this fails, it could
+ * have corrupted the txbuf content with a partial
+ * encrypt. Assume that ENOMEM is retryable, but
+ * everything else is terminal.
+ */
ret = call->security->secure_packet(call, txb);
- if (ret < 0)
+ if (ret < 0) {
+ if (ret == -ENOMEM)
+ goto maybe_error_rewind;
+ set_bit(RXRPC_CALL_TX_ERROR, &call->flags);
goto out;
+ }
+
+ if (msg_data_left(msg) == 0 && !more)
+ txb->flags |= RXRPC_LAST_PACKET;
rxrpc_queue_packet(rx, call, txb, notify_end_tx);
txb = NULL;
}
@@ -463,6 +478,22 @@ static int rxrpc_send_data(struct rxrpc_sock *rx,
_leave(" = %d", call->error);
return call->error;

+maybe_error_rewind:
+ /* If we got a retryable error after copying all the supplied data into
+ * the last packet, we need to rewind as much as we can so the caller
+ * knows they need to retry the sendmsg.
+ */
+ if (copied && !more && !msg_data_left(msg)) {
+ unsigned int rewind_by = umin(copied, txb->len);
+
+ txb->space += rewind_by;
+ txb->len -= rewind_by;
+ txb->offset -= rewind_by;
+ copied -= rewind_by;
+ if (call->tx_total_len != -1)
+ call->tx_total_len += rewind_by;
+ iov_iter_revert(&msg->msg_iter, rewind_by);
+ }
maybe_error:
if (copied) {
if (rxrpc_call_is_complete(call) &&