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Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:01:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Dingisoul To: loberman@redhat.com Cc: James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, dingiso.kernel@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, mkp@kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG] scsi: st: use-after-free race between st_remove() and st_open()/scsi_tape_get() Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:01:48 -0400 Message-Id: <20261013200148.1942808-1-dingiso.kernel@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.34.1 In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi Laurence, Applied your patch, rebuilt, and reran the original reproducer. No KASAN report, no warnings, no panic across the whole run. Looks good to me -- feel free to send it upstream. Best, Dingisoul On your patch: > Hello > > Please try this patch, let me know if it fixes this and I will send a > follow up to finalize this fix. > > > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/st.c b/drivers/scsi/st.c > index f1c3c49466..d5b90bd1c6 100644 > --- a/drivers/scsi/st.c > +++ b/drivers/scsi/st.c > @@ -4509,11 +4509,11 @@ static void st_remove(struct scsi_device *SDp) > remove_cdevs(tpnt); > > mutex_lock(&st_ref_mutex); > - kref_put(&tpnt->kref, scsi_tape_release); > - mutex_unlock(&st_ref_mutex); > spin_lock(&st_index_lock); > idr_remove(&st_index_idr, index); > spin_unlock(&st_index_lock); > + kref_put(&tpnt->kref, scsi_tape_release); > + mutex_unlock(&st_ref_mutex); > }