[PATCH v2 0/2] nvmet: passthru cleanup and fixup I/O hotpath

Keith Busch kbusch at kernel.org
Tue Oct 13 08:35:16 PDT 2026


On Tue, Sep 29, 2026 at 04:56:46PM +0530, Nilay Shroff wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This series addresses a race in the passthru I/O hotpath where
> concurrently disabling the passthru controller while I/Os are in flight
> can result in a use-after-free bug.
> 
> We were able to reproduce this bug with NVMe/TCP configured and by
> injecting an additional delay into the target-side I/O processing code.
> If the passthru controller is disabled while an I/O is still in flight,
> it results in the following kernel crash:

Thanks, applied to nvme-7.4.



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