[PATCH net 1/5] rxrpc: Fix irq-disabled in local_bh_enable()

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Wed Jul 16 04:53:00 PDT 2025


The rxrpc_assess_MTU_size() function calls down into the IP layer to find
out the MTU size for a route.  When accepting an incoming call, this is
called from rxrpc_new_incoming_call() which holds interrupts disabled
across the code that calls down to it.  Unfortunately, the IP layer uses
local_bh_enable() which, config dependent, throws a warning if IRQs are
enabled:

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5544 at kernel/softirq.c:387 __local_bh_enable_ip+0x43/0xd0
...
RIP: 0010:__local_bh_enable_ip+0x43/0xd0
...
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 rt_cache_route+0x7e/0xa0
 rt_set_nexthop.isra.0+0x3b3/0x3f0
 __mkroute_output+0x43a/0x460
 ip_route_output_key_hash+0xf7/0x140
 ip_route_output_flow+0x1b/0x90
 rxrpc_assess_MTU_size.isra.0+0x2a0/0x590
 rxrpc_new_incoming_peer+0x46/0x120
 rxrpc_alloc_incoming_call+0x1b1/0x400
 rxrpc_new_incoming_call+0x1da/0x5e0
 rxrpc_input_packet+0x827/0x900
 rxrpc_io_thread+0x403/0xb60
 kthread+0x2f7/0x310
 ret_from_fork+0x2a/0x230
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
...
hardirqs last  enabled at (23): _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x24/0x50
hardirqs last disabled at (24): _raw_read_lock_irq+0x17/0x70
softirqs last  enabled at (0): copy_process+0xc61/0x2730
softirqs last disabled at (25): rt_add_uncached_list+0x3c/0x90

Fix this by moving the call to rxrpc_assess_MTU_size() out of
rxrpc_init_peer() and further up the stack where it can be done without
interrupts disabled.

It shouldn't be a problem for rxrpc_new_incoming_call() to do it after the
locks are dropped as pmtud is going to be performed by the I/O thread - and
we're in the I/O thread at this point.

Fixes: a2ea9a907260 ("rxrpc: Use irq-disabling spinlocks between app and I/O thread")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman at auristor.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne at auristor.com>
cc: Junvyyang, Tencent Zhuque Lab <zhuque at tencent.com>
cc: LePremierHomme <kwqcheii at proton.me>
cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni at redhat.com>
cc: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>
cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
cc: Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs at lists.infradead.org
cc: netdev at vger.kernel.org
cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
---
 net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h | 1 +
 net/rxrpc/call_accept.c | 1 +
 net/rxrpc/peer_object.c | 6 ++----
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h b/net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h
index 376e33dce8c1..df1a618dbf7d 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h
+++ b/net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h
@@ -1383,6 +1383,7 @@ struct rxrpc_peer *rxrpc_lookup_peer_rcu(struct rxrpc_local *,
 					 const struct sockaddr_rxrpc *);
 struct rxrpc_peer *rxrpc_lookup_peer(struct rxrpc_local *local,
 				     struct sockaddr_rxrpc *srx, gfp_t gfp);
+void rxrpc_assess_MTU_size(struct rxrpc_local *local, struct rxrpc_peer *peer);
 struct rxrpc_peer *rxrpc_alloc_peer(struct rxrpc_local *, gfp_t,
 				    enum rxrpc_peer_trace);
 void rxrpc_new_incoming_peer(struct rxrpc_local *local, struct rxrpc_peer *peer);
diff --git a/net/rxrpc/call_accept.c b/net/rxrpc/call_accept.c
index 49fccee1a726..226b4bf82747 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/call_accept.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/call_accept.c
@@ -406,6 +406,7 @@ bool rxrpc_new_incoming_call(struct rxrpc_local *local,
 
 	spin_unlock(&rx->incoming_lock);
 	read_unlock_irq(&local->services_lock);
+	rxrpc_assess_MTU_size(local, call->peer);
 
 	if (hlist_unhashed(&call->error_link)) {
 		spin_lock_irq(&call->peer->lock);
diff --git a/net/rxrpc/peer_object.c b/net/rxrpc/peer_object.c
index e2f35e6c04d6..366431b0736c 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/peer_object.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/peer_object.c
@@ -149,8 +149,7 @@ struct rxrpc_peer *rxrpc_lookup_peer_rcu(struct rxrpc_local *local,
  * assess the MTU size for the network interface through which this peer is
  * reached
  */
-static void rxrpc_assess_MTU_size(struct rxrpc_local *local,
-				  struct rxrpc_peer *peer)
+void rxrpc_assess_MTU_size(struct rxrpc_local *local, struct rxrpc_peer *peer)
 {
 	struct net *net = local->net;
 	struct dst_entry *dst;
@@ -277,8 +276,6 @@ static void rxrpc_init_peer(struct rxrpc_local *local, struct rxrpc_peer *peer,
 
 	peer->hdrsize += sizeof(struct rxrpc_wire_header);
 	peer->max_data = peer->if_mtu - peer->hdrsize;
-
-	rxrpc_assess_MTU_size(local, peer);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -297,6 +294,7 @@ static struct rxrpc_peer *rxrpc_create_peer(struct rxrpc_local *local,
 	if (peer) {
 		memcpy(&peer->srx, srx, sizeof(*srx));
 		rxrpc_init_peer(local, peer, hash_key);
+		rxrpc_assess_MTU_size(local, peer);
 	}
 
 	_leave(" = %p", peer);




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