From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> Writing 'power' and 'submit_queues' concurrently will trigger kernel panic: Test script: modprobe null_blk nr_devices=0 mkdir -p /sys/kernel/config/nullb/nullb0 while true; do echo 1 > submit_queues; echo 4 > submit_queues; done & while true; do echo 1 > power; echo 0 > power; done Test result: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000148 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0x41d/0x28f0 Call Trace: <TASK> lock_acquire+0x121/0x450 down_write+0x5f/0x1d0 simple_recursive_removal+0x12f/0x5c0 blk_mq_debugfs_unregister_hctxs+0x7c/0x100 blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues+0x4a3/0x720 nullb_update_nr_hw_queues+0x71/0xf0 [null_blk] nullb_device_submit_queues_store+0x79/0xf0 [null_blk] configfs_write_iter+0x119/0x1e0 vfs_write+0x326/0x730 ksys_write+0x74/0x150 This is because del_gendisk() can concurrent with blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues(): nullb_device_power_store nullb_apply_submit_queues null_del_dev del_gendisk nullb_update_nr_hw_queues if (!dev->nullb) // still set while gendisk is deleted return 0 blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues dev->nullb = NULL Fix this problem by synchronize nullb_device_power_store() and nullb_update_nr_hw_queues() with a mutex. Fixes: 45919fbfe1c4 ("null_blk: Enable modifying 'submit_queues' after an instance has been configured") Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/null_blk/main.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c b/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c index b3fedafe301e..21c668998d95 100644 --- a/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c +++ b/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c @@ -1810,6 +1810,7 @@ static void null_del_dev(struct nullb *nullb) return; dev = nullb->dev; + dev->nullb = NULL; ida_simple_remove(&nullb_indexes, nullb->index); @@ -1831,7 +1832,6 @@ static void null_del_dev(struct nullb *nullb) if (null_cache_active(nullb)) null_free_device_storage(nullb->dev, true); kfree(nullb); - dev->nullb = NULL; } static void null_config_discard(struct nullb *nullb) @@ -2087,7 +2087,6 @@ static int null_add_dev(struct nullb_device *dev) goto out; } nullb->dev = dev; - dev->nullb = nullb; spin_lock_init(&nullb->lock); @@ -2179,6 +2178,7 @@ static int null_add_dev(struct nullb_device *dev) if (rv) goto out_ida_free; + dev->nullb = nullb; mutex_lock(&lock); list_add_tail(&nullb->list, &nullb_list); mutex_unlock(&lock); @@ -2200,7 +2200,6 @@ static int null_add_dev(struct nullb_device *dev) cleanup_queues(nullb); out_free_nullb: kfree(nullb); - dev->nullb = NULL; out: return rv; } -- 2.39.2