From: Yu Zhang <yuz08559@gmail.com>
To: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Cc: linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Yu Zhang <yuz08559@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] nvmet: take subsys->lock while force-reconnecting in nvmet_subsys_attr_qid_max_store()
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:47:27 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261014054727.53183-1-yuz08559@gmail.com> (raw)
nvmet_subsys_attr_qid_max_store() sets subsys->max_qid and then walks
subsys->ctrls to force every controller to reconnect, but it holds only
nvmet_config_sem (for write). subsys->ctrls is protected by subsys->lock:
nvmet_alloc_ctrl() adds an entry under subsys->lock, and nvmet_ctrl_free()
removes it under subsys->lock with list_del() + kfree() (not kfree_rcu).
The free path takes no nvmet_config_sem, so the two locks are independent.
A controller teardown (host disconnect, keep-alive timeout or fatal error
-> nvmet_sq_destroy() -> nvmet_ctrl_put() -> nvmet_ctrl_free()) can
therefore list_del() an entry while qid_max_store() is iterating the list,
corrupting the walk.
KASAN, concurrent "echo 128 > .../subsystems/<nqn>/attr_qid_max" racing
nvme-loop controllers connecting and disconnecting, panics in seconds:
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in nvmet_subsys_attr_qid_max_store+0x10d/0x1b0
Read of size 8 at addr 0000000000000090
Call Trace:
nvmet_subsys_attr_qid_max_store+0x10d/0x1b0
configfs_write_iter+0x1a7/0x250
vfs_write+0x5df/0x940
ksys_write+0xfd/0x1e0
(also seen as a general-protection fault dereferencing a LIST_POISON
pointer at the same instruction.)
Take subsys->lock around the list_for_each_entry() loop, matching every
other subsys->ctrls accessor. ->delete_ctrl() only queues asynchronous
controller teardown, so it does not re-enter subsys->lock under the loop.
Fixes: 3e980f5995e0 ("nvmet: expose max queues to configfs")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhang <yuz08559@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Yu Zhang <yuz08559@gmail.com>
---
drivers/nvme/target/configfs.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/configfs.c b/drivers/nvme/target/configfs.c
index 1111111..2222222 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/configfs.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/configfs.c
@@ -1683,9 +1683,16 @@ static ssize_t nvmet_subsys_attr_qid_max_store(struct config_item *item,
down_write(&nvmet_config_sem);
subsys->max_qid = qid_max;
- /* Force reconnect */
+ /*
+ * Force reconnect. subsys->ctrls is protected by subsys->lock
+ * (nvmet_alloc_ctrl()/nvmet_ctrl_free() add and remove entries under
+ * it); take it here too so a concurrent controller teardown cannot
+ * list_del() an entry while this loop walks the list.
+ */
+ mutex_lock(&subsys->lock);
list_for_each_entry(ctrl, &subsys->ctrls, subsys_entry)
ctrl->ops->delete_ctrl(ctrl);
+ mutex_unlock(&subsys->lock);
up_write(&nvmet_config_sem);
return cnt;
--
2.43.0
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