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From: Sanan Hasanov <sanan.hasanou@gmail.com>
To: Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com>,
	David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Cc: gfs2@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	syzbot+b2b8d04ec4914f618d23@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
	Sanan Hasanov <sanan.hasanov@ucf.edu>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] dlm: don't put an uninitialized lockspace kobject on error
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:48:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261019184849.24422-1-sanan.hasanou@gmail.com> (raw)

From: Sanan Hasanov <sanan.hasanov@ucf.edu>

Commit 8a4cf500f1dd ("dlm: drop kobject release callback handling")
dropped the do_unreg flag from new_lockspace() and made the out_lsfree
error label call kobject_put(&ls->ls_kobj) unconditionally. But ls_kobj
is only initialized by kobject_init_and_add() after the callback
workqueue and dlm_recoverd have been started, so every failure before
that point puts a kobject that was never initialized:

  dlm: ls_6035_1: can't start dlm_callback -12
  kobject: '(null)' (ffff888027a28088): is not initialized, yet kobject_put() is being called.
  WARNING: lib/kobject.c:736 at kobject_put+0x66/0x550 lib/kobject.c:734
  Call Trace:
   new_lockspace fs/dlm/lockspace.c:617 [inline]
   __dlm_new_lockspace+0x1714/0x1cd0 fs/dlm/lockspace.c:638
   device_create_lockspace+0xc7/0x350 fs/dlm/user.c:414
   device_write+0x872/0xed0 fs/dlm/user.c:606
   vfs_write+0x296/0xba0 fs/read_write.c:685

syzbot hits this by sending SIGKILL to a task creating a lockspace
through /dev/dlm-control, so that alloc_ordered_workqueue() in
dlm_callback_start() fails to create its rescuer thread. The same
happens if rhashtable_init(), the ls_recover_buf allocation or
dlm_recoverd_start() fail.

Bring the flag back so the kobject is only put once
kobject_init_and_add() has been called. Since the kobject no longer
frees the lockspace, kfree(ls) still runs on every error path.

Fixes: 8a4cf500f1dd ("dlm: drop kobject release callback handling")
Reported-by: syzbot+b2b8d04ec4914f618d23@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=b2b8d04ec4914f618d23
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sanan Hasanov <sanan.hasanov@ucf.edu>
---
 fs/dlm/lockspace.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/dlm/lockspace.c b/fs/dlm/lockspace.c
index a9c98b4f37..443421e945 100644
--- a/fs/dlm/lockspace.c
+++ b/fs/dlm/lockspace.c
@@ -364,6 +364,7 @@ static int new_lockspace(const char *name, const char *cluster,
 			 int *ops_result, dlm_lockspace_t **lockspace)
 {
 	struct dlm_ls *ls;
+	int do_unreg = 0;
 	int namelen = strlen(name);
 	int error;
 
@@ -567,6 +568,9 @@ static int new_lockspace(const char *name, const char *cluster,
 	wait_event(ls->ls_recover_lock_wait,
 		   test_bit(LSFL_RECOVER_LOCK, &ls->ls_flags));
 
+	/* ls_kobj must only be put once kobject_init_and_add() ran */
+	do_unreg = 1;
+
 	ls->ls_kobj.kset = dlm_kset;
 	error = kobject_init_and_add(&ls->ls_kobj, &dlm_ktype, NULL,
 				     "%s", ls->ls_name);
@@ -614,7 +618,8 @@ static int new_lockspace(const char *name, const char *cluster,
 	xa_destroy(&ls->ls_lkbxa);
 	rhashtable_destroy(&ls->ls_rsbtbl);
  out_lsfree:
-	kobject_put(&ls->ls_kobj);
+	if (do_unreg)
+		kobject_put(&ls->ls_kobj);
 	kfree(ls);
  out:
 	module_put(THIS_MODULE);
-- 
2.34.1


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