[PATCH] nvme: avoid NULL pointer dereference in admin queue initialization error path

Smith, Kyle Miller (Nimble Kernel) kyles at hpe.com
Thu Apr 21 13:55:16 PDT 2022


In nvme_alloc_admin_tags, the admin_q can be set to an error (typically
-ENOMEM) if the blk_mq_init_queue call fails to set up the queue, which is
checked for immediately after the call. However, when we return the error
up the stack to nvme_reset_work the error takes us to
nvme_remove_dead_ctrl -> nvme_dev_disable ->
nvme_suspend_queue(&dev->queues[0]). Here, we only check that the admin_q
is non-NULL, rather than not an error or NULL, and begin quiescing a queue
that never existed, leading to bad / NULL pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Kyle Smith <kyles at hpe.com>
---
 drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
index 6a99ed680915..2f7510938b18 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
@@ -1772,6 +1772,7 @@ static int nvme_alloc_admin_tags(struct nvme_dev *dev)
 		dev->ctrl.admin_q = blk_mq_init_queue(&dev->admin_tagset);
 		if (IS_ERR(dev->ctrl.admin_q)) {
 			blk_mq_free_tag_set(&dev->admin_tagset);
+			dev->ctrl.admin_q = NULL;
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		}
 		if (!blk_get_queue(dev->ctrl.admin_q)) {
 



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