From: Chuck Lever tls_sw_splice_read() takes its blocking behavior from SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK alone. When splicing from a socket to a pipe, do_splice() sets that flag from the pipe's O_NONBLOCK, not the socket's. On a nonblocking socket, a splice(2) call without SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK therefore sleeps in tls_rx_rec_wait() until a record arrives. tcp_splice_read() instead reads sock->file->f_flags and returns -EAGAIN. Polling first does not avoid the sleep once tls_sw_splice_read() consumes zero-length records, as it does after a later patch in this series. tls_sw_sock_is_readable() reports the socket readable while any record sits on rx_list, including a zero-length record that delivers no bytes to the pipe. For TLS 1.3 the strparser announces a record before decryption, when its plaintext length is still unknown, so the readiness test cannot screen such a record out. A splice that consumes the record and waits for the next stalls every connection an event loop multiplexes. An LLM audit of the TLS read paths found this defect. Treat the socket's O_NONBLOCK as nonblocking too. A caller that sets O_NONBLOCK on the socket and splices without SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK now gets -EAGAIN where the splice blocked before. sendfile(2) from a TLS socket changes the same way, because do_sendfile() leaves the input file's O_NONBLOCK out of the splice flags. Both now behave as they do on a plain TCP socket. Fixes: c46234ebb4d1 ("tls: RX path for ktls") Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- net/tls/tls_sw.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/tls/tls_sw.c b/net/tls/tls_sw.c index 312e51270f29..771e02bff519 100644 --- a/net/tls/tls_sw.c +++ b/net/tls/tls_sw.c @@ -2007,10 +2007,14 @@ ssize_t tls_sw_splice_read(struct socket *sock, loff_t *ppos, struct tls_msg *tlm; struct sk_buff *skb; ssize_t copied = 0; + bool nonblock; int chunk; int err; - err = tls_rx_reader_lock(sk, ctx, flags & SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK); + nonblock = flags & SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK || + sock->file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK; + + err = tls_rx_reader_lock(sk, ctx, nonblock); if (err < 0) return err; @@ -2024,8 +2028,7 @@ ssize_t tls_sw_splice_read(struct socket *sock, loff_t *ppos, } else { struct tls_decrypt_arg darg; - err = tls_rx_rec_wait(sk, flags & SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK, - true, false); + err = tls_rx_rec_wait(sk, nonblock, true, false); if (err <= 0) goto splice_read_end; -- 2.56.0