linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] md: fix create on open mddev lifetime regression

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Message-ID: <51d8593c-150e-4c81-8b0a-37720062a5d8@molgen.mpg.de>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 09:46:42 +0200
From: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
To: Yu Kuai <yukuai1@...weicloud.com>
Cc: contact@...aud-lcm.com, hdanton@...a.com, song@...nel.org,
 yukuai3@...wei.com, xni@...hat.com, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, yi.zhang@...wei.com, yangerkun@...wei.com,
 johnny.chenyi@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] md: fix create on open mddev lifetime regression

Dear Kuai,


Thank you for your patch and tracking this down.

Am 30.07.25 um 09:33 schrieb Yu Kuai:
> From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@...wei.com>
> 
> Commit 9e59d609763f ("md: call del_gendisk in control path") move

move*s*

> setting MD_DELETED from __mddev_put() to do_md_stop(), however, for the
> case create on open, mddev can be freed without do_md_stop():
> 
> 1) open
> 
> md_probe
>   md_alloc_and_put
>    md_alloc
>     mddev_alloc
>     atomic_set(&mddev->active, 1);
>     mddev->hold_active = UNTIL_IOCTL
>    mddev_put
>     atomic_dec_and_test(&mddev->active)
>      if (mddev->hold_active)
>      -> active is 0, hold_active is set
> md_open
>   mddev_get
>    atomic_inc(&mddev->active);
> 
> 2) ioctl that is not STOP_ARRAY, for example, GET_ARRAY_INFO:
> 
> md_ioctl
>   mddev->hold_active = 0
> 
> 3) close
> 
> md_release
>   mddev_put(mddev);
>    atomic_dec_and_lock(&mddev->active, &all_mddevs_lock)
>    __mddev_put
>    -> hold_active is cleared, mddev will be freed
>    queue_work(md_misc_wq, &mddev->del_work)
> 
> Now that MD_DELETED is not set, before mddev is freed by
> mddev_delayed_delete(), md_open can still succeed and break mddev
> lifetime, causing mddev->kobj refcount underflow or mddev uaf
> problem.
> 
> Fix this problem by setting MD_DELETED before queuing del_work.
> 
> Reported-by: syzbot+9921e319bd6168140b40@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68894408.a00a0220.26d0e1.0012.GAE@google.com/
> Reported-by: syzbot+fa3a12519f0d3fd4ec16@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68894408.a00a0220.26d0e1.0013.GAE@google.com/
> Fixes: 9e59d609763f ("md: call del_gendisk in control path")
> Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@...wei.com>
> ---
>   drivers/md/md.c | 6 ++++++
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
> index 046fe85c76fe..5289dcc3a6af 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/md.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/md.c
> @@ -636,6 +636,12 @@ static void __mddev_put(struct mddev *mddev)
>   	    mddev->ctime || mddev->hold_active)
>   		return;
>   
> +	/*
> +	 * If array is freed by stopping array, MD_DELETED is set by
> +	 * do_md_stop(), MD_DELETED is still set here in cause mddev is freed

in case

> +	 * directly by closing a mddev that is created by create_on_open.
> +	 */
> +	set_bit(MD_DELETED, &mddev->flags);
>   	/*
>   	 * Call queue_work inside the spinlock so that flush_workqueue() after
>   	 * mddev_find will succeed in waiting for the work to be done.

With the changes above:

Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>


Kind regards,

Paul