[PATCH v2] nvme-rdma: fix NULL queue->ctrl dereference on reconnect

Keith Busch kbusch at kernel.org
Mon Nov 2 09:27:37 PST 2026


On Thu, Oct 29, 2026 at 11:19:57AM -0300, Christian Aurich Zanettini Martins wrote:
> Since commit 2a8513091d2f ("nvme-rdma: parallelize I/O queue allocation
> and startup"), a reconnect that gets more I/O queues than before grows
> the tag set before the new queues are set up. queue->ctrl is only set
> by nvme_rdma_setup_io_queues(), so I/O submitted in between reaches
> nvme_rdma_queue_rq() on a queue that was never allocated and
> dereferences a NULL queue->ctrl:
> 
>   BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000034c
>   RIP: 0010:nvme_rdma_queue_rq+0x52/0xb90
> 
> Set queue->ctrl for every queue when allocating the controller. Such
> requests are then requeued like on any other queue that is not live.

Thanks, applied to nvme-7.4.



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