From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> Our syzkaller report a null pointer dereference, root cause is following: __blk_mq_alloc_map_and_rqs set->tags[hctx_idx] = blk_mq_alloc_map_and_rqs blk_mq_alloc_map_and_rqs blk_mq_alloc_rqso // failed due to oom alloc_pages_node // set->stags[hctx_idx] is still NULL blk_mq_free_rqs drv_tags = set->tags[hctx_idx]; // null pointer dereference is triggered blk_mq_clear_rq_mapping(drv_tags, ...) This is because commit 63064be150e4 ("blk-mq: Add blk_mq_alloc_map_and_rqs()") merged the two steps: 1) set->tags[hctx_idx] = blk_mq_alloc_rq_map() 2) blk_mq_alloc_rqs(..., set->tags[hctx_idx]) into one step: set->tags[hctx_idx] = blk_mq_alloc_map_and_rqs() Since tags is not initialized yet in this case, fix the problem by checking if tags is NULL pointer in blk_mq_clear_rq_mapping(). Fixes: 63064be150e4 ("blk-mq: Add blk_mq_alloc_map_and_rqs()") Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> --- block/blk-mq.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c index 8070b6c10e8d..33292c01875d 100644 --- a/block/blk-mq.c +++ b/block/blk-mq.c @@ -3112,8 +3112,11 @@ static void blk_mq_clear_rq_mapping(struct blk_mq_tags *drv_tags, struct page *page; unsigned long flags; - /* There is no need to clear a driver tags own mapping */ - if (drv_tags == tags) + /* + * There is no need to clear mapping if driver tags is not initialized + * or the mapping belongs to the driver tags. + */ + if (!drv_tags || drv_tags == tags) return; list_for_each_entry(page, &tags->page_list, lru) { -- 2.31.1