[PATCH] RDMA/mlx5: Wait for in-flight page faults on implicit MR null_mkey dereg
From: lirongqing
Date: Sun Sep 20 2026 - 05:06:42 EST
From: Li RongQing <lirongqing@xxxxxxxxx>
An implicit ODP MR (imr) publishes two mkeys into dev->odp_mkeys: the
main imr->mmkey and imr->null_mmkey (MLX5_MKEY_NULL). Both are stored via
mlx5r_store_odp_mkey(), which initialises their usecount to 1, and
find_odp_mkey() takes a reference on whichever mkey it finds for the
duration of a page fault.
__mlx5_ib_dereg_mr() erases and waits on the *main* mmkey usecount only.
For the null_mmkey, mlx5_ib_free_odp_mr() merely xa_erase()s it from
odp_mkeys and calls mlx5_core_destroy_mkey() -- it never waits for an
in-flight memory-scheme page fault (MLX5_MKEY_NULL) that holds a
reference on null_mmkey. After xa_erase(), find_odp_mkey() stops
returning the null_mmkey, but a fault already past the lookup still
holds a reference and dereferences the imr (via container_of and
pagefault_mr) after __mlx5_ib_dereg_mr() proceeds to kfree(mr).
Mirror the main-mmkey handling: after xa_erase() of null_mmkey, call
mlx5r_deref_wait_odp_mkey() to drop the reference taken at store time
and wait for any in-flight fault to finish before destroying the mkey
and freeing the imr.
Fixes: 6f2487bfafce ("RDMA/mlx5: Add implicit MR handling to ODP memory scheme")
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/odp.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/odp.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/odp.c
index b861861..f27ca77 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/odp.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/odp.c
@@ -683,6 +683,8 @@ void mlx5_ib_free_odp_mr(struct mlx5_ib_mr *mr)
xa_erase(&mr_to_mdev(mr)->odp_mkeys,
mlx5_base_mkey(mr->null_mmkey.key));
+ mlx5r_deref_wait_odp_mkey(&mr->null_mmkey);
+
mlx5_core_destroy_mkey(mr_to_mdev(mr)->mdev,
mr->null_mmkey.key);
}
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