With CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST=y and by executing
$ netcat -l --sctp &
$ netcat --sctp localhost &
$ ss --sctp
one can trigger the following Lockdep-RCU splat(s):
WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
6.18.0-rc1-00093-g7f864458e9a6 #5 Not tainted
-----------------------------
net/sctp/diag.c:76 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!!
other info that might help us debug this:
rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
2 locks held by ss/215:
#0:
ffff9c740828bec0 (nlk_cb_mutex-SOCK_DIAG){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: __netlink_dump_start+0x84/0x2b0
#1:
ffff9c7401d72cd0 (sk_lock-AF_INET6){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: sctp_sock_dump+0x38/0x200
stack backtrace:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 215 Comm: ss Not tainted
6.18.0-rc1-00093-g7f864458e9a6 #5 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x5d/0x90
lockdep_rcu_suspicious.cold+0x4e/0xa3
inet_sctp_diag_fill.isra.0+0x4b1/0x5d0
sctp_sock_dump+0x131/0x200
sctp_transport_traverse_process+0x170/0x1b0
? __pfx_sctp_sock_filter+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_sctp_sock_dump+0x10/0x10
sctp_diag_dump+0x103/0x140
__inet_diag_dump+0x70/0xb0
netlink_dump+0x148/0x490
__netlink_dump_start+0x1f3/0x2b0
inet_diag_handler_cmd+0xcd/0x100
? __pfx_inet_diag_dump_start+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_inet_diag_dump+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_inet_diag_dump_done+0x10/0x10
sock_diag_rcv_msg+0x18e/0x320
? __pfx_sock_diag_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10
netlink_rcv_skb+0x4d/0x100
netlink_unicast+0x1d7/0x2b0
netlink_sendmsg+0x203/0x450
____sys_sendmsg+0x30c/0x340
___sys_sendmsg+0x94/0xf0
__sys_sendmsg+0x83/0xf0
do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x390
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
...
</TASK>
Fixes: 8f840e47f190 ("sctp: add the sctp_diag.c file")
Signed-off-by: Stefan Wiehler <stefan.wiehler@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Acked-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028161506.3294376-2-stefan.wiehler@nokia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>