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Message-Id: <1523433445-7596-1-git-send-email-ka-cheong.poon@oracle.com>
Date:   Wed, 11 Apr 2018 00:57:25 -0700
From:   Ka-Cheong Poon <ka-cheong.poon@...cle.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com, davem@...emloft.net,
        rds-devel@....oracle.com
Subject: [PATCH net] rds: MP-RDS may use an invalid c_path

rds_sendmsg() calls rds_send_mprds_hash() to find a c_path to use to
send a message.  Suppose the RDS connection is not yet up.  In
rds_send_mprds_hash(), it does

	if (conn->c_npaths == 0)
		wait_event_interruptible(conn->c_hs_waitq,
					 (conn->c_npaths != 0));

If it is interrupted before the connection is set up,
rds_send_mprds_hash() will return a non-zero hash value.  Hence
rds_sendmsg() will use a non-zero c_path to send the message.  But if
the RDS connection ends up to be non-MP capable, the message will be
lost as only the zero c_path can be used.

Signed-off-by: Ka-Cheong Poon <ka-cheong.poon@...cle.com>
---
 net/rds/send.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/rds/send.c b/net/rds/send.c
index acad042..94c7f74 100644
--- a/net/rds/send.c
+++ b/net/rds/send.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2006 Oracle.  All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2006, 2018 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  *
  * This software is available to you under a choice of one of two
  * licenses.  You may choose to be licensed under the terms of the GNU
@@ -1017,10 +1017,15 @@ static int rds_send_mprds_hash(struct rds_sock *rs, struct rds_connection *conn)
 	if (conn->c_npaths == 0 && hash != 0) {
 		rds_send_ping(conn, 0);
 
-		if (conn->c_npaths == 0) {
-			wait_event_interruptible(conn->c_hs_waitq,
-						 (conn->c_npaths != 0));
-		}
+		/* The underlying connection is not up yet.  Need to wait
+		 * until it is up to be sure that the non-zero c_path can be
+		 * used.  But if we are interrupted, we have to use the zero
+		 * c_path in case the connection ends up being non-MP capable.
+		 */
+		if (conn->c_npaths == 0)
+			if (wait_event_interruptible(conn->c_hs_waitq,
+						     conn->c_npaths != 0))
+				hash = 0;
 		if (conn->c_npaths == 1)
 			hash = 0;
 	}
-- 
1.8.3.1