From: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
To: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>, Yu Kuai <yukuai@fygo.io>
Cc: Li Nan <magiclinan@didiglobal.com>, Xiao Ni <xiao@kernel.org>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] md: reject raid_disks >= MD_SB_DISKS in md_set_array_info()
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2026 09:11:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260919091118.3272955-1-benquike@gmail.com> (raw)
md_set_array_info() copies info->raid_disks straight into
mddev->raid_disks without any upper bound, while also setting
mddev->max_disks to MD_SB_DISKS for persistent arrays. The resulting
mddev is internally inconsistent: raid_disks can be far larger than the
number of devices a v0.90 superblock is able to describe.
super_90_sync() lays the device table out inside the single page that
holds the v0.90 superblock and picks slot numbers starting at
mddev->raid_disks:
next_spare = mddev->raid_disks;
...
desc_nr = next_spare++;
rdev2->desc_nr = desc_nr;
d = &sb->disks[rdev2->desc_nr];
sb->disks[] only has MD_SB_DISKS (27) entries, so an
ioctl(SET_ARRAY_INFO) with raid_disks = 1000 followed by any operation
that writes the superblock walks tens of kilobytes past the end of the
superblock page:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in super_90_sync+0x1c5e/0x20c0
Write of size 4 at addr 0xffff888009623c00 by task init/1
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Tainted: G D W 7.3.0-rc3-g5dd1818b15d9 #3 PREEMPT(lazy)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x4d/0x70
print_report+0x153/0x4c6
kasan_report+0xda/0x110
super_90_sync+0x1c5e/0x20c0
md_update_sb+0x850/0x1e90
new_level_store+0x11a/0x190
md_attr_store+0x12f/0x270
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x323/0x4e0
vfs_write+0x54f/0xde0
ksys_write+0xfd/0x200
do_syscall_64+0xda/0x4b0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
</TASK>
==================================================================
Reject the request before mddev is modified. Non-persistent arrays do
not write a v0.90 superblock, so the MD_SB_DISKS limit is only applied
when info->not_persistent is clear.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
---
No Fixes: tag: the missing check appears to predate the git history I
have available, so I would rather not guess at a commit.
Reproduced on Linux 7.3.0-rc3 (5dd1818b15d9) with KASAN under QEMU:
create an md array over a loop device, issue
ioctl(fd, SET_ARRAY_INFO) with raid_disks = 1000, then write to
/sys/block/md0/md/new_level to force md_update_sb(). With this patch the
ioctl fails with -EINVAL and no splat is produced.
Note that raid_disks_store() has a related but weaker check: it bounds n
against mddev->max_disks, which is still 0 before any superblock has
been loaded. I have deliberately not touched it here, since an
unconditional MD_SB_DISKS limit there would break v1.x arrays with more
than MD_SB_DISKS members. It may deserve a separate fix - input from
the maintainers would be welcome.
drivers/md/md.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -7926,6 +7926,10 @@ int md_set_array_info(struct mddev *mdde
mddev->ctime = ktime_get_real_seconds();
return 0;
}
+ if (info->raid_disks <= 0 ||
+ (!info->not_persistent && info->raid_disks >= MD_SB_DISKS))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
mddev->major_version = MD_MAJOR_VERSION;
mddev->minor_version = MD_MINOR_VERSION;
mddev->patch_version = MD_PATCHLEVEL_VERSION;
--
2.43.0
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