[PATCH] nvmet: Fix a use-after-free

Bart Van Assche bvanassche at acm.org
Fri Aug 12 14:03:17 PDT 2022


Fix the following use-after-free complaint triggered by blktests nvme/004:

BUG: KASAN: user-memory-access in blk_mq_complete_request_remote+0xac/0x350
Read of size 4 at addr 0000607bd1835943 by task kworker/13:1/460
Workqueue: nvmet-wq nvme_loop_execute_work [nvme_loop]
Call Trace:
 show_stack+0x52/0x58
 dump_stack_lvl+0x49/0x5e
 print_report.cold+0x36/0x1e2
 kasan_report+0xb9/0xf0
 __asan_load4+0x6b/0x80
 blk_mq_complete_request_remote+0xac/0x350
 nvme_loop_queue_response+0x1df/0x275 [nvme_loop]
 __nvmet_req_complete+0x132/0x4f0 [nvmet]
 nvmet_req_complete+0x15/0x40 [nvmet]
 nvmet_execute_io_connect+0x18a/0x1f0 [nvmet]
 nvme_loop_execute_work+0x20/0x30 [nvme_loop]
 process_one_work+0x56e/0xa70
 worker_thread+0x2d1/0x640
 kthread+0x183/0x1c0
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a07b4970f464 ("nvmet: add a generic NVMe target")
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche at acm.org>
---
 drivers/nvme/target/core.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/core.c b/drivers/nvme/target/core.c
index a1345790005f..7f4083cf953a 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/core.c
@@ -735,6 +735,8 @@ static void nvmet_set_error(struct nvmet_req *req, u16 status)
 
 static void __nvmet_req_complete(struct nvmet_req *req, u16 status)
 {
+	struct nvmet_ns *ns = req->ns;
+
 	if (!req->sq->sqhd_disabled)
 		nvmet_update_sq_head(req);
 	req->cqe->sq_id = cpu_to_le16(req->sq->qid);
@@ -745,9 +747,9 @@ static void __nvmet_req_complete(struct nvmet_req *req, u16 status)
 
 	trace_nvmet_req_complete(req);
 
-	if (req->ns)
-		nvmet_put_namespace(req->ns);
 	req->ops->queue_response(req);
+	if (ns)
+		nvmet_put_namespace(ns);
 }
 
 void nvmet_req_complete(struct nvmet_req *req, u16 status)



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