The blk-mq debugfs attributes are removed after blk_cleanup_queue() has finished. Since running a queue after a queue has entered the "dead" state is not allowed, disallow this. This patch avoids that an attempt to run a dead queue triggers a kernel crash. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx> --- block/blk-mq-debugfs.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c b/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c index df9b688b877c..a1ce823578c7 100644 --- a/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c +++ b/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c @@ -111,6 +111,14 @@ static ssize_t blk_queue_flags_store(struct file *file, const char __user *ubuf, struct request_queue *q = file_inode(file)->i_private; char op[16] = { }, *s; + /* + * The debugfs attributes are removed after blk_cleanup_queue() has + * called blk_mq_free_queue(). Return if QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD has been set + * to avoid triggering a use-after-free. + */ + if (blk_queue_dead(q)) + return -ENOENT; + len = min(len, sizeof(op) - 1); if (copy_from_user(op, ubuf, len)) return -EFAULT; -- 2.12.0