From: Xiubo Li <xiubli@xxxxxxxxxx> The crash call trace: <6>[ 1012.319386] block nbd1: NBD_DISCONNECT <1>[ 1012.319437] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020 <1>[ 1012.319439] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode <1>[ 1012.319441] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page <6>[ 1012.319442] PGD 0 P4D 0 <4>[ 1012.319448] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI <4>[ 1012.319454] CPU: 9 PID: 25111 Comm: rbd-nbd Tainted: G E 5.9.0+ #6 [...] <4>[ 1012.319505] PKRU: 55555554 <4>[ 1012.319506] Call Trace: <4>[ 1012.319560] flush_workqueue+0x81/0x440 <4>[ 1012.319598] nbd_disconnect_and_put+0x50/0x70 [nbd] <4>[ 1012.319607] nbd_genl_disconnect+0xc7/0x170 [nbd] <4>[ 1012.319627] genl_rcv_msg+0x1dd/0x2f9 <4>[ 1012.319642] ? genl_start+0x140/0x140 <4>[ 1012.319644] netlink_rcv_skb+0x49/0x110 <4>[ 1012.319649] genl_rcv+0x24/0x40 <4>[ 1012.319651] netlink_unicast+0x1a5/0x280 <4>[ 1012.319653] netlink_sendmsg+0x23d/0x470 <4>[ 1012.319667] sock_sendmsg+0x5b/0x60 <4>[ 1012.319676] ____sys_sendmsg+0x1ef/0x260 <4>[ 1012.319679] ? copy_msghdr_from_user+0x5c/0x90 <4>[ 1012.319680] ? ____sys_recvmsg+0xa5/0x180 <4>[ 1012.319682] ___sys_sendmsg+0x7c/0xc0 <4>[ 1012.319683] ? copy_msghdr_from_user+0x5c/0x90 <4>[ 1012.319685] ? ___sys_recvmsg+0x89/0xc0 <4>[ 1012.319692] ? __wake_up_common_lock+0x87/0xc0 <4>[ 1012.319715] ? __check_object_size+0x46/0x173 <4>[ 1012.319727] ? _copy_to_user+0x22/0x30 <4>[ 1012.319729] ? move_addr_to_user+0xc3/0x100 <4>[ 1012.319731] __sys_sendmsg+0x57/0xa0 <4>[ 1012.319744] do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40 <4>[ 1012.319760] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 <4>[ 1012.319780] RIP: 0033:0x7f5baa8e3ad5 In case the reference of nbd->config reached zero and trying to free the related resource, including the nbd->recv_workq, if another process send one DISCONENCT cmd by using the netlink, it will be potentially crash like this. This will the nbd->recv_workq under the nbd->config_lock. Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <xiubli@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/nbd.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c index edf8b632e3d2..3d3f4255e495 100644 --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c @@ -1327,9 +1327,10 @@ static int nbd_start_device_ioctl(struct nbd_device *nbd, struct block_device *b atomic_read(&config->recv_threads) == 0); if (ret) sock_shutdown(nbd); - flush_workqueue(nbd->recv_workq); mutex_lock(&nbd->config_lock); + flush_workqueue(nbd->recv_workq); + nbd_bdev_reset(bdev); /* user requested, ignore socket errors */ if (test_bit(NBD_RT_DISCONNECT_REQUESTED, &config->runtime_flags)) @@ -1339,6 +1340,18 @@ static int nbd_start_device_ioctl(struct nbd_device *nbd, struct block_device *b return ret; } +static void nbd_config_clear_rt_ref_and_put(struct nbd_device *nbd) +{ + lockdep_assert_held(&nbd->config_lock); + + if (test_and_clear_bit(NBD_RT_HAS_CONFIG_REF, + &nbd->config->runtime_flags)) { + mutex_unlock(&nbd->config_lock); + nbd_config_put(nbd); + mutex_lock(&nbd->config_lock); + } +} + static void nbd_clear_sock_ioctl(struct nbd_device *nbd, struct block_device *bdev) { @@ -2006,16 +2019,15 @@ static void nbd_disconnect_and_put(struct nbd_device *nbd) mutex_lock(&nbd->config_lock); nbd_disconnect(nbd); nbd_clear_sock(nbd); - mutex_unlock(&nbd->config_lock); + /* * Make sure recv thread has finished, so it does not drop the last * config ref and try to destroy the workqueue from inside the work * queue. */ flush_workqueue(nbd->recv_workq); - if (test_and_clear_bit(NBD_RT_HAS_CONFIG_REF, - &nbd->config->runtime_flags)) - nbd_config_put(nbd); + nbd_config_clear_rt_ref_and_put(nbd); + mutex_unlock(&nbd->config_lock); } static int nbd_genl_disconnect(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) -- 2.18.4