[PATCH net] net/smc: serialize sndbuf descriptor release with diagnostic dumps

From: Chengfeng Ye

Date: Sun Sep 27 2026 - 03:32:37 EST


An SMC-D connection can remain in the socket hash while smc_conn_kill()
tears it down. For devices supporting DMB nocopy, smcd_buf_detach() frees
the send buffer descriptor without taking the hash lock held by the
diagnostic reader.

__smc_diag_dump() can load a non-NULL conn->sndbuf_desc, then a concurrent
smc_conn_kill() can clear the pointer and free the descriptor before the
dump reads its len field. The socket lock held by the teardown path does
not exclude the dump, and clearing the pointer before freeing it does
not protect a reader that has already loaded it.

KASAN reported:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __smc_diag_dump.constprop.0+0x2477/0x2b10
Call Trace:
__smc_diag_dump.constprop.0+0x2477/0x2b10
smc_diag_dump_proto+0x266/0x390
smc_diag_dump+0x20/0x70
netlink_dump+0x489/0x1140
Allocated by task 70:
smcd_buf_attach+0x11b/0x310
smc_listen_work+0x2a62/0x4cf0
Freed by task 98:
kfree+0x131/0x3c0
smcd_buf_detach+0x120/0x280
smc_conn_kill+0x487/0x720
__smc_lgr_terminate.part.0+0x231/0x430
smc_smcd_terminate_all+0x2cf/0x610

Take the hash write lock when removing the descriptor from the
connection. This waits for dumps holding the old pointer and prevents
new dumps from seeing it. Free the descriptor after dropping the lock.

Fixes: ae2be35cbed2 ("net/smc: {at|de}tach sndbuf to peer DMB if supported")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Chengfeng Ye <nicoyip.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/smc/smc_core.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/smc/smc_core.c b/net/smc/smc_core.c
index 9974149659c2..f32fc1bd5bc8 100644
--- a/net/smc/smc_core.c
+++ b/net/smc/smc_core.c
@@ -1207,6 +1207,8 @@ static void smcr_buf_unuse(struct smc_buf_desc *buf_desc, bool is_rmb,

static void smcd_buf_detach(struct smc_connection *conn)
{
+ struct smc_sock *smc = container_of(conn, struct smc_sock, conn);
+ struct smc_hashinfo *h = smc->sk.sk_prot->h.smc_hash;
struct smcd_dev *smcd = conn->lgr->smcd;
u64 peer_token = conn->peer_token;
struct smc_buf_desc *buf_desc;
@@ -1216,8 +1218,10 @@ static void smcd_buf_detach(struct smc_connection *conn)

smc_ism_detach_dmb(smcd, peer_token);

+ write_lock_bh(&h->lock);
buf_desc = conn->sndbuf_desc;
conn->sndbuf_desc = NULL;
+ write_unlock_bh(&h->lock);
kfree(buf_desc);
}

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