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Message-Id: <69829383-8212-473b-9346-d093d33f1d27@fnnas.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:01:47 +0800
From: "Yu Kuai" <yukuai@...as.com>
To: <linan122@...wei.com>, <corbet@....net>, <song@...nel.org>, 
	<hare@...e.de>, <xni@...hat.com>
Cc: <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 
	<linux-raid@...r.kernel.org>, <linan666@...weicloud.com>, 
	<yangerkun@...wei.com>, <yi.zhang@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/4] md: init bioset in mddev_init

Hi,

在 2025/10/27 15:29, linan122@...wei.com 写道:
> From: Li Nan <linan122@...wei.com>
>
> IO operations may be needed before md_run(), such as updating metadata
> after writing sysfs. Without bioset, this triggers a NULL pointer
> dereference as below:
>
>   BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020
>   Call Trace:
>    md_update_sb+0x658/0xe00
>    new_level_store+0xc5/0x120
>    md_attr_store+0xc9/0x1e0
>    sysfs_kf_write+0x6f/0xa0
>    kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x141/0x2a0
>    vfs_write+0x1fc/0x5a0
>    ksys_write+0x79/0x180
>    __x64_sys_write+0x1d/0x30
>    x64_sys_call+0x2818/0x2880
>    do_syscall_64+0xa9/0x580
>    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
>
> Reproducer
> ```
>    mdadm -CR /dev/md0 -l1 -n2 /dev/sd[cd]
>    echo inactive > /sys/block/md0/md/array_state
>    echo 10 > /sys/block/md0/md/new_level
> ```
>
> Fixes: d981ed841930 ("md: Add new_level sysfs interface")
> Signed-off-by: Li Nan <linan122@...wei.com>
> ---
>   drivers/md/md.c | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
>   1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
> index f6fd55a1637b..51f0201e4906 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/md.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/md.c
> @@ -730,6 +730,8 @@ static void mddev_clear_bitmap_ops(struct mddev *mddev)
>   
>   int mddev_init(struct mddev *mddev)
>   {
> +	int err = 0;
> +
>   	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MD_BITMAP))
>   		mddev->bitmap_id = ID_BITMAP_NONE;
>   	else
> @@ -741,8 +743,26 @@ int mddev_init(struct mddev *mddev)
>   
>   	if (percpu_ref_init(&mddev->writes_pending, no_op,
>   			    PERCPU_REF_ALLOW_REINIT, GFP_KERNEL)) {
> -		percpu_ref_exit(&mddev->active_io);
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> +		err = -ENOMEM;
> +		goto exit_acitve_io;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (!bioset_initialized(&mddev->bio_set)) {
> +		err = bioset_init(&mddev->bio_set, BIO_POOL_SIZE, 0, BIOSET_NEED_BVECS);

mddev_init() can only be called once for one mddev, no need to test if bioset
is initialized here.

> +		if (err)
> +			goto exit_writes_pending;
> +	}
> +	if (!bioset_initialized(&mddev->sync_set)) {

same here.

> +		err = bioset_init(&mddev->sync_set, BIO_POOL_SIZE, 0, BIOSET_NEED_BVECS);
> +		if (err)
> +			goto exit_bio_set;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (!bioset_initialized(&mddev->io_clone_set)) {

And here.

Thanks,
Kuai

> +		err = bioset_init(&mddev->io_clone_set, BIO_POOL_SIZE,
> +				  offsetof(struct md_io_clone, bio_clone), 0);
> +		if (err)
> +			goto exit_sync_set;
>   	}
>   
>   	/* We want to start with the refcount at zero */
> @@ -773,11 +793,24 @@ int mddev_init(struct mddev *mddev)
>   	INIT_WORK(&mddev->del_work, mddev_delayed_delete);
>   
>   	return 0;
> +
> +exit_sync_set:
> +	bioset_exit(&mddev->sync_set);
> +exit_bio_set:
> +	bioset_exit(&mddev->bio_set);
> +exit_writes_pending:
> +	percpu_ref_exit(&mddev->writes_pending);
> +exit_acitve_io:
> +	percpu_ref_exit(&mddev->active_io);
> +	return err;
>   }
>   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mddev_init);
>   
>   void mddev_destroy(struct mddev *mddev)
>   {
> +	bioset_exit(&mddev->bio_set);
> +	bioset_exit(&mddev->sync_set);
> +	bioset_exit(&mddev->io_clone_set);
>   	percpu_ref_exit(&mddev->active_io);
>   	percpu_ref_exit(&mddev->writes_pending);
>   }
> @@ -6393,29 +6426,9 @@ int md_run(struct mddev *mddev)
>   		nowait = nowait && bdev_nowait(rdev->bdev);
>   	}
>   
> -	if (!bioset_initialized(&mddev->bio_set)) {
> -		err = bioset_init(&mddev->bio_set, BIO_POOL_SIZE, 0, BIOSET_NEED_BVECS);
> -		if (err)
> -			return err;
> -	}
> -	if (!bioset_initialized(&mddev->sync_set)) {
> -		err = bioset_init(&mddev->sync_set, BIO_POOL_SIZE, 0, BIOSET_NEED_BVECS);
> -		if (err)
> -			goto exit_bio_set;
> -	}
> -
> -	if (!bioset_initialized(&mddev->io_clone_set)) {
> -		err = bioset_init(&mddev->io_clone_set, BIO_POOL_SIZE,
> -				  offsetof(struct md_io_clone, bio_clone), 0);
> -		if (err)
> -			goto exit_sync_set;
> -	}
> -
>   	pers = get_pers(mddev->level, mddev->clevel);
> -	if (!pers) {
> -		err = -EINVAL;
> -		goto abort;
> -	}
> +	if (!pers)
> +		return -EINVAL;
>   	if (mddev->level != pers->head.id) {
>   		mddev->level = pers->head.id;
>   		mddev->new_level = pers->head.id;
> @@ -6426,8 +6439,7 @@ int md_run(struct mddev *mddev)
>   	    pers->start_reshape == NULL) {
>   		/* This personality cannot handle reshaping... */
>   		put_pers(pers);
> -		err = -EINVAL;
> -		goto abort;
> +		return -EINVAL;
>   	}
>   
>   	if (pers->sync_request) {
> @@ -6554,12 +6566,6 @@ int md_run(struct mddev *mddev)
>   	mddev->private = NULL;
>   	put_pers(pers);
>   	md_bitmap_destroy(mddev);
> -abort:
> -	bioset_exit(&mddev->io_clone_set);
> -exit_sync_set:
> -	bioset_exit(&mddev->sync_set);
> -exit_bio_set:
> -	bioset_exit(&mddev->bio_set);
>   	return err;
>   }
>   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(md_run);
> @@ -6784,10 +6790,6 @@ static void __md_stop(struct mddev *mddev)
>   	mddev->private = NULL;
>   	put_pers(pers);
>   	clear_bit(MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN, &mddev->recovery);
> -
> -	bioset_exit(&mddev->bio_set);
> -	bioset_exit(&mddev->sync_set);
> -	bioset_exit(&mddev->io_clone_set);
>   }
>   
>   void md_stop(struct mddev *mddev)

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