From: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> I met a null-ptr-deref when doing fault-inject test: [ 65.441626][ T8299] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000029: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN [ 65.443219][ T8299] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000148-0x000000000000014f] [ 65.444331][ T8299] CPU: 2 PID: 8299 Comm: test Not tainted 5.10.49+ #499 [ 65.445277][ T8299] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014 [ 65.446614][ T8299] RIP: 0010:io_disable_sqo_submit+0x124/0x260 [ 65.447554][ T8299] Code: 7b 40 89 ee e8 2d b9 9a ff 85 ed 74 40 e8 04 b8 9a ff 49 8d be 48 01 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 22 01 00 00 49 8b ae 48 01 00 00 48 85 ed 74 0d [ 65.450860][ T8299] RSP: 0018:ffffc9000122fd70 EFLAGS: 00010202 [ 65.451826][ T8299] RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff88801b11f000 RCX: ffffffff81d5d783 [ 65.453166][ T8299] RDX: 0000000000000029 RSI: ffffffff81d5d78c RDI: 0000000000000148 [ 65.454606][ T8299] RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: ffff88810168c280 R09: ffffed1003623e79 [ 65.456063][ T8299] R10: ffffc9000122fd70 R11: ffffed1003623e78 R12: ffff88801b11f040 [ 65.457542][ T8299] R13: ffff88801b11f3c0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 000000000000001a [ 65.458910][ T8299] FS: 00007ffb602e3500(0000) GS:ffff888064100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 65.460533][ T8299] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 65.461736][ T8299] CR2: 00007ffb5fe7eb24 CR3: 000000010a619000 CR4: 0000000000750ee0 [ 65.463146][ T8299] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 65.464618][ T8299] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 65.466052][ T8299] PKRU: 55555554 [ 65.466708][ T8299] Call Trace: [ 65.467304][ T8299] io_uring_setup+0x2041/0x3ac0 [ 65.468169][ T8299] ? io_iopoll_check+0x500/0x500 [ 65.469123][ T8299] ? syscall_enter_from_user_mode+0x1c/0x50 [ 65.470241][ T8299] do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x70 [ 65.471028][ T8299] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 [ 65.472099][ T8299] RIP: 0033:0x7ffb5fdec839 [ 65.472925][ T8299] Code: 00 f3 c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 1f f6 2c 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 [ 65.476465][ T8299] RSP: 002b:00007ffc33539ef8 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001a9 [ 65.478026][ T8299] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007ffb5fdec839 [ 65.479503][ T8299] RDX: 0000000020ffd000 RSI: 0000000020000080 RDI: 0000000000100001 [ 65.480927][ T8299] RBP: 00007ffc33539f70 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 65.482416][ T8299] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000555e85531320 [ 65.483845][ T8299] R13: 00007ffc3353a0a0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 65.485331][ T8299] Modules linked in: [ 65.486000][ T8299] Dumping ftrace buffer: [ 65.486772][ T8299] (ftrace buffer empty) [ 65.487595][ T8299] ---[ end trace a9a5fad3ebb303b7 ]--- If io_allocate_scq_urings() fails in io_uring_create(), 'ctx->sq_data' is not set yet, when calling io_sq_offload_start() in io_disable_sqo_submit() in error path, it will lead a null-ptr-deref. The io_disable_sqo_submit() has been removed in mainline by commit 70aacfe66136 ("io_uring: kill sqo_dead and sqo submission halting"), so the bug has been eliminated in mainline, it's a fix only for stable-5.10. Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/io_uring.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/io_uring.c +++ b/fs/io_uring.c @@ -7997,7 +7997,7 @@ static void io_sq_offload_start(struct i struct io_sq_data *sqd = ctx->sq_data; ctx->flags &= ~IORING_SETUP_R_DISABLED; - if ((ctx->flags & IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL) && sqd->thread) + if ((ctx->flags & IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL) && sqd && sqd->thread) wake_up_process(sqd->thread); }