This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nvme: avoid double free special payload to the 5.15-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-avoid-double-free-special-payload.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 834a6ca9b6a59c6e7cefcd6613f29e5b52b08200 Author: Chunguang Xu <chunguang.xu@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jun 11 18:02:08 2024 +0800 nvme: avoid double free special payload [ Upstream commit e5d574ab37f5f2e7937405613d9b1a724811e5ad ] If a discard request needs to be retried, and that retry may fail before a new special payload is added, a double free will result. Clear the RQF_SPECIAL_LOAD when the request is cleaned. Signed-off-by: Chunguang Xu <chunguang.xu@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <mgurtovoy@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 960a31e3307a2..93a19588ae92a 100644 --- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c @@ -981,6 +981,7 @@ void nvme_cleanup_cmd(struct request *req) clear_bit_unlock(0, &ctrl->discard_page_busy); else kfree(bvec_virt(&req->special_vec)); + req->rq_flags &= ~RQF_SPECIAL_PAYLOAD; } } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nvme_cleanup_cmd);