Commit 37f9579f4c31 ("blk-mq: Avoid that submitting a bio concurrently with device removal triggers a crash") introduced a NULL pointer dereference in generic_make_request(). The patch sets q to NULL and enter_succeeded to false; right after, there's an 'if (enter_succeeded)' which is not taken, and then the 'else' will dereference q in blk_queue_dying(q). This patch just moves the 'q = NULL' to a point in which it won't trigger the oops, although the semantics of this NULLification remains untouched. A simple test case/reproducer is as follows: a) Build kernel v5.1-rc7 with CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP=n. b) Create a raid0 md array with 2 NVMe devices as members, and mount it with an ext4 filesystem. c) Run the following oneliner (supposing the raid0 is mounted in /mnt): (dd of=/mnt/tmp if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=999 &); sleep 0.3; echo 1 > /sys/block/nvme0n1/device/device/remove (whereas nvme0n1 is the 2nd array member) This will trigger the following oops: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000078 PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI RIP: 0010:generic_make_request+0x32b/0x400 Call Trace: submit_bio+0x73/0x140 ext4_io_submit+0x4d/0x60 ext4_writepages+0x626/0xe90 do_writepages+0x4b/0xe0 [...] This patch has no functional changes and preserves the md/raid0 behavior when a member is removed before kernel v4.17. Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.17 Fixes: 37f9579f4c31 ("blk-mq: Avoid that submitting a bio concurrently with device removal triggers a crash") Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- block/blk-core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c index a55389ba8779..e21856a7f3fa 100644 --- a/block/blk-core.c +++ b/block/blk-core.c @@ -1076,7 +1076,6 @@ blk_qc_t generic_make_request(struct bio *bio) flags = BLK_MQ_REQ_NOWAIT; if (blk_queue_enter(q, flags) < 0) { enter_succeeded = false; - q = NULL; } } @@ -1108,6 +1107,7 @@ blk_qc_t generic_make_request(struct bio *bio) bio_wouldblock_error(bio); else bio_io_error(bio); + q = NULL; } bio = bio_list_pop(&bio_list_on_stack[0]); } while (bio); -- 2.21.0 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel