On 02/10/2020 01:32 AM, Sun Ke wrote: > Open /dev/nbdX first, the config_refs will be 1 and > the pointers in nbd_device are still null. Disconnect > /dev/nbdX, then reference a null recv_workq. The > protection by config_refs in nbd_genl_disconnect is useless. > > To fix it, just add a check for a non null task_recv in > nbd_genl_disconnect. > > Signed-off-by: Sun Ke <sunke32@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > v1 -> v2: > Add an omitted mutex_unlock. > > v2 -> v3: > Add nbd->config_lock, suggested by Josef. > --- > drivers/block/nbd.c | 8 ++++++++ > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c > index b4607dd96185..870b3fd0c101 100644 > --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c > +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c > @@ -2008,12 +2008,20 @@ static int nbd_genl_disconnect(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) > index); > return -EINVAL; > } > + mutex_lock(&nbd->config_lock); > if (!refcount_inc_not_zero(&nbd->refs)) { > + mutex_unlock(&nbd->config_lock); > mutex_unlock(&nbd_index_mutex); > printk(KERN_ERR "nbd: device at index %d is going down\n", > index); > return -EINVAL; > } > + if (!nbd->recv_workq) { > + mutex_unlock(&nbd->config_lock); > + mutex_unlock(&nbd_index_mutex); > + return -EINVAL; > + } > + mutex_unlock(&nbd->config_lock); > mutex_unlock(&nbd_index_mutex); > if (!refcount_inc_not_zero(&nbd->config_refs)) { > nbd_put(nbd); > With my other patch then we will not need this right? It handles your case by just being integrated with the existing checks in: nbd_disconnect_and_put->nbd_clear_sock->sock_shutdown ... static void sock_shutdown(struct nbd_device *nbd) { .... if (config->num_connections == 0) return; num_connections is zero for your case since we never did a nbd_genl_disconnect so we would return here.