[PATCH 01/19] smb: smbdirect: introduce smbdirect_socket.recv_io.credits.available

Stefan Metzmacher metze at samba.org
Wed Jan 21 19:50:11 UTC 2026


The logic off managing recv credits by counting posted recv_io and
granted credits is racy.

That's because the peer might already consumed a credit,
but between receiving the incoming recv at the hardware
and processing the completion in the 'recv_done' functions
we likely have a window where we grant credits, which
don't really exist.

So we better have a decicated counter for the
available credits, which will be incremented
when we posted new recv buffers and drained when
we grant the credits to the peer.

Fixes: 5fb9b459b368 ("smb: client: count the number of posted recv_io messages in order to calculated credits")
Fixes: 89b021a72663 ("smb: server: manage recv credits by counting posted recv_io and granted credits")
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # 6.18.x
Cc: Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Talpey <tom at talpey.com>
Cc: Long Li <longli at microsoft.com>
Cc: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon at kernel.org>
Cc: linux-cifs at vger.kernel.org
Cc: samba-technical at lists.samba.org
Signed-off-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
---
 fs/smb/common/smbdirect/smbdirect_socket.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/smb/common/smbdirect/smbdirect_socket.h b/fs/smb/common/smbdirect/smbdirect_socket.h
index ee4c2726771a..403a8b2cd30e 100644
--- a/fs/smb/common/smbdirect/smbdirect_socket.h
+++ b/fs/smb/common/smbdirect/smbdirect_socket.h
@@ -239,6 +239,7 @@ struct smbdirect_socket {
 		 */
 		struct {
 			u16 target;
+			atomic_t available;
 			atomic_t count;
 		} credits;
 
@@ -387,6 +388,7 @@ static __always_inline void smbdirect_socket_init(struct smbdirect_socket *sc)
 	INIT_WORK(&sc->recv_io.posted.refill_work, __smbdirect_socket_disabled_work);
 	disable_work_sync(&sc->recv_io.posted.refill_work);
 
+	atomic_set(&sc->recv_io.credits.available, 0);
 	atomic_set(&sc->recv_io.credits.count, 0);
 
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sc->recv_io.reassembly.list);
-- 
2.43.0




More information about the samba-technical mailing list