Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] RDMA/rxe: drive UDP tunnel socket lifetime from the GID table

From: Zhu Yanjun

Date: Mon Jul 27 2026 - 23:43:56 EST


在 2026/7/27 12:55, Serhat Kumral 写道:
I was pointed at Weimin Xiong's "RDMA/rxe: Hold netdev reference for
transmit skbs" (v3, 20260716055255.157674-1-xiongwm2026@xxxxxxx) and
tested with it applied.

That patch and this series conflict in rxe_notify(). Its hunk carries
"rxe_net_del(&rxe->ib_dev);" as a context line, and this series removes
that call together with the function, so neither order applies with a
plain git apply. I resolved it by keeping both rxe_flush_qps() calls and
dropping the rxe_net_del() line:

case NETDEV_GOING_DOWN:
/* Start draining TX queues before the netdev disappears. */
rxe_flush_qps(rxe);
break;
case NETDEV_UNREGISTER:
rxe_flush_qps(rxe);
ib_unregister_device_queued(&rxe->ib_dev);
break;

If the tree where the crash appears resolves it differently, that
difference is worth seeing.

[root@fedora linux]# git log --oneline f2ec6312bf..HEAD
c7b5816e800a (HEAD -> master) Merge branch 'master' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux
668b9a3b586c RDMA/rxe: Hold netdev reference for transmit skbs

This is the command line
"
[ 0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt2)/vmlinuz-7.2.0-rc3-rxe-l2+ root=UUID=511002c6-ecb8-4356-bd0b-7c54cc92384f ro rootflags=subvol=root rhgb quiet crashkernel=2G
"

Zhu Yanjun


Four kernels on f2ec6312bf71, same config and toolchain as before, 120
runs of rxe_rping_between_netns.sh each:

f2ec6312bf71 120/120
+ this series 120/120
+ the netdev reference patch 120/120
+ the netdev reference patch + series 120/120

No KASAN report, GPF, Oops, refcount warning, lockdep splat, hung task or
RCU stall in any of them. The module symbol tables confirm each kernel
carries what it should: rxe_flush_qps only in the two with the netdev
reference patch, rxe_add_gid and rxe_del_gid only in the two with this
series.

Four kernels reporting nothing made me doubt the setup rather than the
result, so I checked that it reports faults at all: a deliberate NULL
pointer dereference injected into the rxe transmit path, during the same
selftest, gives

[ 69.131350] Oops: general protection fault, kernel NULL pointer
dereference 0x39: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
[ 69.141660] Workqueue: rxe_wq do_work [rdma_rxe]

It reaches the console I capture, my filters count it, and the iteration
is recorded as failed. From userspace the selftest just hangs.

So it still does not reproduce here.

thanks,
serhat