From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 2004bfdef945fe55196db6b9cdf321fbc75bb0de ] If null_add_dev() fails, clear dev->nullb. This patch fixes the following KASAN complaint: BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in nullb_device_submit_queues_store+0xcf/0x160 [null_blk] Read of size 8 at addr ffff88803280fc30 by task check/8409 Call Trace: dump_stack+0xa5/0xe6 print_address_description.constprop.0+0x26/0x260 __kasan_report.cold+0x7b/0x99 kasan_report+0x16/0x20 __asan_load8+0x58/0x90 nullb_device_submit_queues_store+0xcf/0x160 [null_blk] configfs_write_file+0x1c4/0x250 [configfs] __vfs_write+0x4c/0x90 vfs_write+0x145/0x2c0 ksys_write+0xd7/0x180 __x64_sys_write+0x47/0x50 do_syscall_64+0x6f/0x2f0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe RIP: 0033:0x7ff370926317 Code: 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb bb 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 51 c3 48 83 ec 28 48 89 54 24 18 48 89 74 24 RSP: 002b:00007fff2dd2da48 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 00007ff370926317 RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000559437ef23f0 RDI: 0000000000000001 RBP: 0000559437ef23f0 R08: 000000000000000a R09: 0000000000000001 R10: 0000559436703471 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000002 R13: 00007ff370a006a0 R14: 00007ff370a014a0 R15: 00007ff370a008a0 Allocated by task 8409: save_stack+0x23/0x90 __kasan_kmalloc.constprop.0+0xcf/0xe0 kasan_kmalloc+0xd/0x10 kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace+0x129/0x4c0 null_add_dev+0x24a/0xe90 [null_blk] nullb_device_power_store+0x1b6/0x270 [null_blk] configfs_write_file+0x1c4/0x250 [configfs] __vfs_write+0x4c/0x90 vfs_write+0x145/0x2c0 ksys_write+0xd7/0x180 __x64_sys_write+0x47/0x50 do_syscall_64+0x6f/0x2f0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe Freed by task 8409: save_stack+0x23/0x90 __kasan_slab_free+0x112/0x160 kasan_slab_free+0x12/0x20 kfree+0xdf/0x250 null_add_dev+0xaf3/0xe90 [null_blk] nullb_device_power_store+0x1b6/0x270 [null_blk] configfs_write_file+0x1c4/0x250 [configfs] __vfs_write+0x4c/0x90 vfs_write+0x145/0x2c0 ksys_write+0xd7/0x180 __x64_sys_write+0x47/0x50 do_syscall_64+0x6f/0x2f0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe Fixes: 2984c8684f96 ("nullb: factor disk parameters") Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@xxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jth@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/null_blk_main.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/block/null_blk_main.c b/drivers/block/null_blk_main.c index 133060431dbdb..8ada43b3eca13 100644 --- a/drivers/block/null_blk_main.c +++ b/drivers/block/null_blk_main.c @@ -1788,6 +1788,7 @@ out_cleanup_queues: cleanup_queues(nullb); out_free_nullb: kfree(nullb); + dev->nullb = NULL; out: return rv; } -- 2.20.1