There is a problem that nbd_handle_reply() might access freed request: 1) At first, a normal io is submitted and completed with scheduler: internel_tag = blk_mq_get_tag -> get tag from sched_tags blk_mq_rq_ctx_init sched_tags->rq[internel_tag] = sched_tag->static_rq[internel_tag] ... blk_mq_get_driver_tag __blk_mq_get_driver_tag -> get tag from tags tags->rq[tag] = sched_tag->static_rq[internel_tag] So, both tags->rq[tag] and sched_tags->rq[internel_tag] are pointing to the request: sched_tags->static_rq[internal_tag]. Even if the io is finished. 2) nbd server send a reply with random tag directly: recv_work nbd_handle_reply blk_mq_tag_to_rq(tags, tag) rq = tags->rq[tag] 3) if the sched_tags->static_rq is freed: blk_mq_sched_free_requests blk_mq_free_rqs(q->tag_set, hctx->sched_tags, i) -> step 2) access rq before clearing rq mapping blk_mq_clear_rq_mapping(set, tags, hctx_idx); __free_pages() -> rq is freed here 4) Then, nbd continue to use the freed request in nbd_handle_reply Fix the problem by get 'q_usage_counter' before blk_mq_tag_to_rq(), thus request is ensured not to be freed because 'q_usage_counter' is not zero. Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/nbd.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c index 9a7bbf8ebe74..3e8b70b5d4f9 100644 --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c @@ -824,6 +824,7 @@ static void recv_work(struct work_struct *work) work); struct nbd_device *nbd = args->nbd; struct nbd_config *config = nbd->config; + struct request_queue *q = nbd->disk->queue; struct nbd_sock *nsock; struct nbd_cmd *cmd; struct request *rq; @@ -834,7 +835,24 @@ static void recv_work(struct work_struct *work) if (nbd_read_reply(nbd, args->index, &reply)) break; + /* + * Grab ref of q_usage_counter can prevent request being freed + * during nbd_handle_reply(). If q_usage_counter is zero, then + * no request is inflight, which means something is wrong since + * we expect to find a request to complete here. + */ + if (!percpu_ref_tryget(&q->q_usage_counter)) { + dev_err(disk_to_dev(nbd->disk), "%s: no io inflight\n", + __func__); + break; + } + cmd = nbd_handle_reply(nbd, args->index, &reply); + /* + * It's safe to drop ref before request completion, inflight + * request will ensure q_usage_counter won't be zero. + */ + percpu_ref_put(&q->q_usage_counter); if (IS_ERR(cmd)) break; -- 2.31.1