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* [PATCH] dm snap: fix use-after-free when origin and COW devices match
@ 2026-10-24 16:14 Igor Putko
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From: Igor Putko @ 2026-10-24 16:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mike Snitzer, Alasdair Kergon, Mikulas Patocka
  Cc: Benjamin Marzinski, Jens Axboe, dm-devel, linux-kernel,
	syzbot+8e6fc64255334ccf3ab3, stable, Igor Putko

When snapshot_ctr() parses target arguments where both origin and COW
paths resolve to the same underlying block device, a slab-use-after-free
occurs.

The origin device is acquired first with origin_mode (e.g. BLK_OPEN_READ
or BLK_OPEN_WRITE). When opening the COW device with dm_table_get_mode()
(typically BLK_OPEN_READ | BLK_OPEN_WRITE), dm_get_device() sees that
the device is already in the table list and calls upgrade_mode() because
the requested mode is broader than the existing one.

upgrade_mode() opens a new table_device, points dd->dm_dev to it, and
calls dm_put_table_device() on the previous one. Since the refcount drops
to zero, the old table_device is freed. However, s->origin still holds a
pointer to that freed table_device. The subsequent check:

    if (s->cow->bdev && s->cow->bdev == s->origin->bdev)

dereferences s->origin->bdev, tripping a KASAN slab-use-after-free read.
Furthermore, under the bad_store error path, dm_put_device(ti, s->origin)
fails to find s->origin in ti->table->devices because dd->dm_dev was
replaced, leaking the device reference count.

Fix this by resolving cow_path to a dev_t via dm_devt_from_path() and
verifying that it does not match s->origin->bdev->bd_dev before calling
dm_get_device() for the COW device.

Fixes: 26110d5afe81 ("dm-snap: simplify the origin_dev == cow_dev check in snapshot_ctr")
Reported-by: syzbot+8e6fc64255334ccf3ab3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8e6fc64255334ccf3ab3
Signed-off-by: Igor Putko <igorpetindev@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm-snap.c | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-snap.c b/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
index 7c3725e4ac54..4a7c04c780d1 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
@@ -1232,6 +1232,7 @@ static int snapshot_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int argc, char **argv)
 	int i;
 	int r = -EINVAL;
 	char *origin_path, *cow_path;
+	dev_t cow_dev;
 	unsigned int args_used, num_flush_bios = 1;
 	blk_mode_t origin_mode = BLK_OPEN_READ;
 
@@ -1274,15 +1275,21 @@ static int snapshot_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int argc, char **argv)
 	argv++;
 	argc--;
 
-	r = dm_get_device(ti, cow_path, dm_table_get_mode(ti->table), &s->cow);
+	r = dm_devt_from_path(cow_path, &cow_dev);
 	if (r) {
 		ti->error = "Cannot get COW device";
 		goto bad_cow;
 	}
-	if (s->cow->bdev && s->cow->bdev == s->origin->bdev) {
+	if (cow_dev == s->origin->bdev->bd_dev) {
 		ti->error = "COW device cannot be the same as origin device";
 		r = -EINVAL;
-		goto bad_store;
+		goto bad_cow;
+	}
+
+	r = dm_get_device(ti, cow_path, dm_table_get_mode(ti->table), &s->cow);
+	if (r) {
+		ti->error = "Cannot get COW device";
+		goto bad_cow;
 	}
 
 	r = dm_exception_store_create(ti, argc, argv, s, &args_used, &s->store);
-- 
2.47.3


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