** Changed in: ubuntu-power-systems
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

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Title:
  [UBUNTU 22.04] net/smc: fix neighbour and rtable leak in
  smc_ib_find_route()

Status in The Ubuntu-power-systems project:
  Fix Committed
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in linux source package in Jammy:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  net/smc: fix neighbour and rtable leak in smc_ib_find_route()

  In smc_ib_find_route(), the neighbour found by neigh_lookup() and rtable
  resolved by ip_route_output_flow() are not released or put before return.
  It may cause the refcount leak, so fix it.

  
  [Fix]

  Cherry pick the fix commit in Jammy:
  - 2ddc0dd7fec8 net/smc: fix neighbour and rtable leak in smc_ib_find_route()

  [Test Plan]

  Compile tested only.

  
  [Where Problems Could Occur]

  The fix affects the SMC-R RDMA route resolution subsystem.
  An issue with this fix may lead to incorrect handling of
  reference counting neighbor and routing table objects
  during RDMA path establishment.
  A user might experience problems such asfailed RDMA connection setups
  resulting in fallback to TCP even on capable hardware.

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  Description:

  net/smc: fix neighbour and rtable leak in smc_ib_find_route()

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  Symptom:       The handshake device gets hung during the cleanup after
  the SMCR-v2 workload

  Problem:       In smc_ib_find_route(), the neighbour found by
  neigh_lookup() and rtable resolved by ip_route_output_flow() are not
  released or put before return. It may cause the refcount leak.

  Solution:      Release the neighbour found via neigh_release()

  Upstream-ID:   2ddc0dd7fec86ee53b8928a5cca5fbddd4fc7c06

  Author:        wen...@linux.ibm.com

  Component:     kernel

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