[PATCH] net/rds: ib: don't enable IRQs in rds_ib_conn_free()

From: Nguyen Ngoc Thang

Date: Fri Oct 16 2026 - 13:43:40 EST


__rds_conn_create() calls trans->conn_free() with rds_conn_lock held
and IRQs disabled when it loses the race to insert a connection.
rds_ib_conn_free() takes the device list lock with spin_lock_irq() and
releases it with spin_unlock_irq(), so IRQs are turned on while
rds_conn_lock is still held:

raw_local_irq_restore() called with IRQs enabled
WARNING: kernel/locking/irqflag-debug.c:10 at warn_bogus_irq_restore+0xc/0x20
_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x67/0x80
__rds_conn_create+0x1de5/0x2290
rds_conn_create_outgoing+0x43/0x60
rds_sendmsg+0xfca/0x20e0
__sys_sendto+0x408/0x5a0

It needs an RDS socket bound to an address on an RDMA device (e.g. rxe)
and two concurrent sendto() calls to the same new destination.

The TCP and loopback ->conn_free() callbacks already use irqsave, so
do the same here.

Fixes: 745cbccac3fe ("RDS: Rewrite connection cleanup, fixing oops on rmmod")
Reported-by: syzbot+c3741bb338b5c6d6a4aa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c3741bb338b5c6d6a4aa
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Nguyen Ngoc Thang <ngocthang2710.1999@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/rds/ib_cm.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/rds/ib_cm.c b/net/rds/ib_cm.c
index 6e3110a04ae6..5c717120eab5 100644
--- a/net/rds/ib_cm.c
+++ b/net/rds/ib_cm.c
@@ -1271,6 +1271,7 @@ void rds_ib_conn_free(void *arg)
{
struct rds_ib_connection *ic = arg;
spinlock_t *lock_ptr;
+ unsigned long flags;

rdsdebug("ic %p\n", ic);

@@ -1281,9 +1282,10 @@ void rds_ib_conn_free(void *arg)
*/
lock_ptr = ic->rds_ibdev ? &ic->rds_ibdev->spinlock : &ib_nodev_conns_lock;

- spin_lock_irq(lock_ptr);
+ /* May be called with IRQs already disabled (see __rds_conn_create()) */
+ spin_lock_irqsave(lock_ptr, flags);
list_del(&ic->ib_node);
- spin_unlock_irq(lock_ptr);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(lock_ptr, flags);

rds_ib_recv_free_caches(ic);

--
2.43.0