From: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>
To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "Martin K . Petersen" <mkp@kernel.org>
Cc: "James E . J . Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
Wenchao Hao <haowenchao22@gmail.com>,
Wenchao Hao <haowenchao2@huawei.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
cki-project@redhat.com, jmoyer@redhat.com, bgoncalv@redhat.com,
mpatalan@redhat.com, ftjahjad@redhat.com, fsuba@redhat.com,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] scsi: fix scsi_debug module-exit panic and pseudo target leak
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2026 14:32:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261103193235.1564898-1-loberman@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8e4ba1820a7c56867bf7fff07bd52ff3f79573a1.camel@redhat.com>
CKI reported a NULL pointer dereference in debugfs_remove() from
sdebug_tartget_cleanup_async() while blktests throtl/001 unloaded
scsi_debug on 7.4.0-rc1 (arm64). The bug is not arm64 specific. It
reproduces on x86_64 with KASAN as a slab-use-after-free of the
per-target debugfs dentry.
While fixing it, instrumenting target alloc/destroy in scsi_debug showed
a second, independent problem in the SCSI core: the pseudo SCSI device's
target is never destroyed, because scsi_get_pseudo_sdev() leaks a
reap_ref. With add_host=4 num_tgts=16, ->target_alloc() was called 68
times and ->target_destroy() only 64; the missing four were the
pseudo-device targets at id max_id. Any LLD that sets nr_reserved_cmds
leaks its pseudo target.
Patch 1 fixes the core leak. Patch 2 makes scsi_debug_exit() wait for
the deferred per-target debugfs cleanup before removing the debugfs
root and unloading. Patch 1 was found while testing patch 2, and
patch 2 was tested on top of it.
Testing (x86_64 VM, KASAN, 7.4.0-rc1): loop
"modprobe scsi_debug add_host=4 num_tgts=16; rmmod scsi_debug", with
an msleep(200) temporarily added to sdebug_tartget_cleanup_async() to
force the race window.
- unpatched: KASAN slab-use-after-free / oops on the first rmmod
- patch 1: 68 target_alloc / 68 target_destroy, pseudo targets
destroyed during scsi_remove_host()
- patches 1+2: 50 iterations clean with the msleep
I had assistatnce from LLM for both of these and ran a local sashiko
which was clean other than a pre-existing issue
Laurence Oberman (2):
scsi: core: Fix target reap_ref leak in scsi_get_pseudo_sdev()
scsi: scsi_debug: Wait for async target cleanup on module exit
drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c | 2 ++
drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c | 15 ++++++++-------
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--
2.43.0
next parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-03 19:32 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <8e4ba1820a7c56867bf7fff07bd52ff3f79573a1.camel@redhat.com>
2026-11-03 19:32 ` Laurence Oberman [this message]
2026-11-03 19:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] scsi: core: Fix target reap_ref leak in scsi_get_pseudo_sdev() Laurence Oberman
2026-11-03 19:32 ` [PATCH] scsi: scsi_debug: Wait for async target cleanup on module exit Laurence Oberman
2026-11-03 20:53 ` Laurence Oberman
2026-11-03 20:52 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Laurence Oberman
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