Re: [PATCH v2] RDMA/srpt: Fix srpt_alloc_rw_ctxs() unwind counters
From: Leon Romanovsky
Date: Thu Jul 16 2026 - 14:29:26 EST
On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 10:37:39AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 7/15/26 3:15 AM, kensanya@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: TanZheng <tanzheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > When srpt_alloc_rw_ctxs() fails partway through a multi-buffer indirect
> > descriptor, the unwind path destroys RDMA contexts but leaves stale
> > n_rw_ctx and n_rdma values (and a dangling rw_ctxs pointer). Later
> > sq_wr_avail accounting in srpt_queue_response() or srpt_write_pending()
> > can then subtract the wrong number of send queue credits.
> >
> > Reset the counters and clear rw_ctxs after freeing the heap
> > allocation before returning an error.
> >
> > Fixes: b99f8e4d7bcd ("IB/srpt: convert to the generic RDMA READ/WRITE API")
> > Signed-off-by: TanZheng <tanzheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > v2:
> > - After kfree(), set rw_ctxs to NULL instead of &s_rw_ctx
> > (Leon Romanovsky)
> >
> > drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c | 6 +++++-
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c
> > index f66cfd70c263..a9c4995af7a3 100644
> > --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c
> > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c
> > @@ -1014,8 +1014,12 @@ static int srpt_alloc_rw_ctxs(struct srpt_send_ioctx *ioctx,
> > ctx->sg, ctx->nents, dir);
> > target_free_sgl(ctx->sg, ctx->nents);
> > }
> > - if (ioctx->rw_ctxs != &ioctx->s_rw_ctx)
> > + if (ioctx->rw_ctxs != &ioctx->s_rw_ctx) {
> > kfree(ioctx->rw_ctxs);
> > + ioctx->rw_ctxs = NULL;
> > + }
> > + ioctx->n_rw_ctx = 0;
> > + ioctx->n_rdma = 0;
> > return ret;
> > }
>
> The above looks wrong to me. In the error path ioctx->n_rw_ctx should be
> restored to the value it had at the start of the function instead of
> resetting it to zero.
Does this patch address your concerns?
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma.git/commit/?h=wip/leon-for-next&id=f65ababb556ae0110d14294747dd6df5dcb8f597
Thanks
>
> Bart.