From: Haoran Zhang <wh1sper@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 221af82f606d928ccef19a16d35633c63026f1be upstream. Since commit 3f8ca2e115e5 ("vhost/scsi: Extract common handling code from control queue handler") a null pointer dereference bug can be triggered when guest sends an SCSI AN request. In vhost_scsi_ctl_handle_vq(), `vc.target` is assigned with `&v_req.tmf.lun[1]` within a switch-case block and is then passed to vhost_scsi_get_req() which extracts `vc->req` and `tpg`. However, for a `VIRTIO_SCSI_T_AN_*` request, tpg is not required, so `vc.target` is set to NULL in this branch. Later, in vhost_scsi_get_req(), `vc->target` is dereferenced without being checked, leading to a null pointer dereference bug. This bug can be triggered from guest. When this bug occurs, the vhost_worker process is killed while holding `vq->mutex` and the corresponding tpg will remain occupied indefinitely. Below is the KASAN report: Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007] CPU: 1 PID: 840 Comm: poc Not tainted 6.10.0+ #1 Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:vhost_scsi_get_req+0x165/0x3a0 Code: 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 2b 02 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4d 8b 65 30 4c 89 e2 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6 04 02 4c 89 e2 83 e2 07 38 d0 7f 08 84 c0 0f 85 be 01 00 00 RSP: 0018:ffff888017affb50 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff88801b000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff888017affcb8 RBP: ffff888017affb80 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffff888017affc88 R14: ffff888017affd1c R15: ffff888017993000 FS: 000055556e076500(0000) GS:ffff88806b100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00000000200027c0 CR3: 0000000010ed0004 CR4: 0000000000370ef0 Call Trace: <TASK> ? show_regs+0x86/0xa0 ? die_addr+0x4b/0xd0 ? exc_general_protection+0x163/0x260 ? asm_exc_general_protection+0x27/0x30 ? vhost_scsi_get_req+0x165/0x3a0 vhost_scsi_ctl_handle_vq+0x2a4/0xca0 ? __pfx_vhost_scsi_ctl_handle_vq+0x10/0x10 ? __switch_to+0x721/0xeb0 ? __schedule+0xda5/0x5710 ? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x30 ? _raw_spin_lock+0x82/0xf0 vhost_scsi_ctl_handle_kick+0x52/0x90 vhost_run_work_list+0x134/0x1b0 vhost_task_fn+0x121/0x350 ... </TASK> ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- Let's add a check in vhost_scsi_get_req. Fixes: 3f8ca2e115e5 ("vhost/scsi: Extract common handling code from control queue handler") Signed-off-by: Haoran Zhang <wh1sper@xxxxxxxxxx> [whitespace fixes] Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-Id: <b26d7ddd-b098-4361-88f8-17ca7f90adf7@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/vhost/scsi.c | 25 ++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/vhost/scsi.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/scsi.c @@ -919,20 +919,23 @@ vhost_scsi_get_req(struct vhost_virtqueu /* virtio-scsi spec requires byte 0 of the lun to be 1 */ vq_err(vq, "Illegal virtio-scsi lun: %u\n", *vc->lunp); } else { - struct vhost_scsi_tpg **vs_tpg, *tpg; + struct vhost_scsi_tpg **vs_tpg, *tpg = NULL; - vs_tpg = vhost_vq_get_backend(vq); /* validated at handler entry */ - - tpg = READ_ONCE(vs_tpg[*vc->target]); - if (unlikely(!tpg)) { - vq_err(vq, "Target 0x%x does not exist\n", *vc->target); - } else { - if (tpgp) - *tpgp = tpg; - ret = 0; + if (vc->target) { + /* validated at handler entry */ + vs_tpg = vhost_vq_get_backend(vq); + tpg = READ_ONCE(vs_tpg[*vc->target]); + if (unlikely(!tpg)) { + vq_err(vq, "Target 0x%x does not exist\n", *vc->target); + goto out; + } } - } + if (tpgp) + *tpgp = tpg; + ret = 0; + } +out: return ret; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from wh1sper@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.10/vhost-scsi-null-ptr-dereference-in-vhost_scsi_get_req.patch