[PATCH] nvme-fc: fix double free of fabrics options when nvme_add_ctrl() fails
Rihyeon Kim
rihyeon8648 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 16 23:18:15 PDT 2026
Hello,
Thanks for the explanation, and for picking this up.
My testing of v1 and v2 never reached this case. The syzbot config has
"# CONFIG_NVME_HOST_AUTH is not set", and I was not aware that the
dhchap option tokens are compiled out when it is disabled. A connect
string containing dhchap_secret= is simply rejected, so every run I did
tore down with ctrl->dhchap_ctxs NULL, and there was no path that
dereferenced ctrl->opts.
I rebuilt with CONFIG_NVME_HOST_AUTH=y and swept fail-nth 1..200 over a
connect write containing dhchap_secret=. You are right:
clearing opts at out_put_ctrl: dies at attempt 20
this patch 200/200, with 35 of the injections
landing in nvme_add_ctrl()
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
0xdffffc0000000008
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000040-0x0000000000000047]
RIP: 0010:nvme_auth_free+0x99/0x450
nvme_free_ctrl+0x231/0x6c0
The injection for that attempt landed in kobj_map() under cdev_add(), so
this is the nvme_add_ctrl() failure path. ctrl_max_dhchaps() then
dereferences ctrl->opts at offset 0x40. Clearing the pointer really does
just trade the double free for this NULL pointer dereference. Good catch.
Your version also addresses the two things I was unsure about in my
earlier mail: fail_unlist: covers the two exit paths after
list_add_tail(), and checking list_empty() while holding the lock keeps
ida_free(), put_device(), and nvme_fc_rport_put() on the unlisted path.
Dropping my v2 in favour of this one.
Tested-by: Rihyeon Kim <rihyeon8648 at gmail.com>
Thanks,
Rihyeon
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