From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> If md_run() failed after 'acitive_io' is initialized, then percpu_ref_exit() is called in error path, however, later md_free_disk() will call percpu_ref_exit() again, which lead to following null-ptr-deference: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000038 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP CPU: 41 PID: 585 Comm: kworker/41:1 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc8-next-20230220 #1452 Workqueue: md_misc mddev_delayed_delete RIP: 0010:free_percpu+0x110/0x630 Call Trace: <TASK> __percpu_ref_exit+0x44/0x70 percpu_ref_exit+0x16/0x90 md_free_disk+0x2f/0x80 disk_release+0x101/0x180 device_release+0x84/0x110 kobject_put+0x12a/0x380 kobject_put+0x160/0x380 mddev_delayed_delete+0x19/0x30 process_one_work+0x269/0x680 worker_thread+0x266/0x640 kthread+0x151/0x1b0 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 Since freeing mddev will exit 'active_io' unconditionally, fix the problem by removing exiting 'active_io' from error path, this way it will be delayed to free mddev. Fixes: 72adae23a72c ("md: Change active_io to percpu") Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/md.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index 927a43db5dfb..77124679b3fd 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -5851,7 +5851,7 @@ int md_run(struct mddev *mddev) if (!bioset_initialized(&mddev->bio_set)) { err = bioset_init(&mddev->bio_set, BIO_POOL_SIZE, 0, BIOSET_NEED_BVECS); if (err) - goto exit_active_io; + return err; } if (!bioset_initialized(&mddev->sync_set)) { err = bioset_init(&mddev->sync_set, BIO_POOL_SIZE, 0, BIOSET_NEED_BVECS); @@ -6039,8 +6039,6 @@ int md_run(struct mddev *mddev) bioset_exit(&mddev->sync_set); exit_bio_set: bioset_exit(&mddev->bio_set); -exit_active_io: - percpu_ref_exit(&mddev->active_io); return err; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(md_run); -- 2.31.1