This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nvme: do not let the user delete a ctrl before a complete initialization to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: nvme-do-not-let-the-user-delete-a-ctrl-before-a-comp.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 60c1d8f83fb641c900886d41efe018d1d01985c3 Author: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu May 11 13:07:41 2023 +0200 nvme: do not let the user delete a ctrl before a complete initialization [ Upstream commit 2eb94dd56a4a4e3fe286def3e2ba207804a37345 ] If a userspace application performes a "delete_controller" command early during the ctrl initialization, the delete operation may race against the init code and the kernel will crash. nvme nvme5: Connect command failed: host path error nvme nvme5: failed to connect queue: 0 ret=880 PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page blk_mq_quiesce_queue+0x18/0x90 nvme_tcp_delete_ctrl+0x24/0x40 [nvme_tcp] nvme_do_delete_ctrl+0x7f/0x8b [nvme_core] nvme_sysfs_delete.cold+0x8/0xd [nvme_core] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x124/0x1b0 new_sync_write+0xff/0x190 vfs_write+0x1ef/0x280 Fix the crash by checking the NVME_CTRL_STARTED_ONCE bit; if it's not set it means that the nvme controller is still in the process of getting initialized and the kernel will return an -EBUSY error to userspace. Set the NVME_CTRL_STARTED_ONCE later in the nvme_start_ctrl() function, after the controller start operation is completed. Signed-off-by: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c index f502e032e7e46..2e22c78991ccf 100644 --- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c @@ -3540,6 +3540,9 @@ static ssize_t nvme_sysfs_delete(struct device *dev, { struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl = dev_get_drvdata(dev); + if (!test_bit(NVME_CTRL_STARTED_ONCE, &ctrl->flags)) + return -EBUSY; + if (device_remove_file_self(dev, attr)) nvme_delete_ctrl_sync(ctrl); return count; @@ -4980,7 +4983,7 @@ void nvme_start_ctrl(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl) * that were missed. We identify persistent discovery controllers by * checking that they started once before, hence are reconnecting back. */ - if (test_and_set_bit(NVME_CTRL_STARTED_ONCE, &ctrl->flags) && + if (test_bit(NVME_CTRL_STARTED_ONCE, &ctrl->flags) && nvme_discovery_ctrl(ctrl)) nvme_change_uevent(ctrl, "NVME_EVENT=rediscover"); @@ -4991,6 +4994,7 @@ void nvme_start_ctrl(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl) } nvme_change_uevent(ctrl, "NVME_EVENT=connected"); + set_bit(NVME_CTRL_STARTED_ONCE, &ctrl->flags); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nvme_start_ctrl);