kernel/linux.git/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c, branch v6.6.132

null_blk: fix kmemleak by releasing references to fault configfs items

2026-01-30T09:27:26+00:00

commit 40b94ec7edbbb867c4e26a1a43d2b898f04b93c5 upstream. When CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NULL_BLK_FAULT_INJECTION is enabled, the null-blk driver sets up fault injection support by creating the timeout_inject, requeue_inject, and init_hctx_fault_inject configfs items as children of the top-level nullbX configfs group. However, when the nullbX device is removed, the references taken to these fault-config configfs items are not released. As a result, kmemleak reports a memory leak, for example: unreferenced object 0xc00000021ff25c40 (size 32): comm "mkdir", pid 10665, jiffies 4322121578 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 69 6e 69 74 5f 68 63 74 78 5f 66 61 75 6c 74 5f init_hctx_fault_ 69 6e 6a 65 63 74 00 88 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 inject.......... backtrace (crc 1a018c86): __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x494/0xbd8 kvasprintf+0x74/0xf4 config_item_set_name+0xf0/0x104 config_group_init_type_name+0x48/0xfc fault_config_init+0x48/0xf0 0xc0080000180559e4 configfs_mkdir+0x304/0x814 vfs_mkdir+0x49c/0x604 do_mkdirat+0x314/0x3d0 sys_mkdir+0xa0/0xd8 system_call_exception+0x1b0/0x4f0 system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec Fix this by explicitly releasing the references to the fault-config configfs items when dropping the reference to the top-level nullbX configfs group. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni Fixes: bb4c19e030f4 ("block: null_blk: make fault-injection dynamically configurable per device") Signed-off-by: Nilay Shroff Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

null_blk: Fix the description of the cache_size module argument

2025-10-15T09:57:52+00:00

[ Upstream commit 7942b226e6b84df13b46b76c01d3b6e07a1b349e ] When executing modinfo null_blk, there is an error in the description of module parameter mbps, and the output information of cache_size is incomplete.The output of modinfo before and after applying this patch is as follows: Before: [...] parm: cache_size:ulong [...] parm: mbps:Cache size in MiB for memory-backed device. Default: 0 (none) (uint) [...] After: [...] parm: cache_size:Cache size in MiB for memory-backed device. Default: 0 (none) (ulong) [...] parm: mbps:Limit maximum bandwidth (in MiB/s). Default: 0 (no limit) (uint) [...] Fixes: 058efe000b31 ("null_blk: add module parameters for 4 options") Signed-off-by: Genjian Zhang Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

null_blk: Fix return value of nullb_device_power_store()

2024-10-10T09:58:09+00:00

commit d9ff882b54f99f96787fa3df7cd938966843c418 upstream. When powering on a null_blk device that is not already on, the return value ret that is initialized to be count is reused to check the return value of null_add_dev(), leading to nullb_device_power_store() to return null_add_dev() return value (0 on success) instead of "count". So make sure to set ret to be equal to count when there are no errors. Fixes: a2db328b0839 ("null_blk: fix null-ptr-dereference while configuring 'power' and 'submit_queues'") Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal Reviewed-by: Yu Kuai Reviewed-by: Kanchan Joshi Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240527043445.235267-1-dlemoal@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

null_blk: fix null-ptr-dereference while configuring 'power' and 'submit_queues'

2024-10-10T09:58:08+00:00

[ Upstream commit a2db328b0839312c169eb42746ec46fc1ab53ed2 ] Writing 'power' and 'submit_queues' concurrently will trigger kernel panic: Test script: modprobe null_blk nr_devices=0 mkdir -p /sys/kernel/config/nullb/nullb0 while true; do echo 1 > submit_queues; echo 4 > submit_queues; done & while true; do echo 1 > power; echo 0 > power; done Test result: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000148 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0x41d/0x28f0 Call Trace: lock_acquire+0x121/0x450 down_write+0x5f/0x1d0 simple_recursive_removal+0x12f/0x5c0 blk_mq_debugfs_unregister_hctxs+0x7c/0x100 blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues+0x4a3/0x720 nullb_update_nr_hw_queues+0x71/0xf0 [null_blk] nullb_device_submit_queues_store+0x79/0xf0 [null_blk] configfs_write_iter+0x119/0x1e0 vfs_write+0x326/0x730 ksys_write+0x74/0x150 This is because del_gendisk() can concurrent with blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues(): nullb_device_power_store nullb_apply_submit_queues null_del_dev del_gendisk nullb_update_nr_hw_queues if (!dev->nullb) // still set while gendisk is deleted return 0 blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues dev->nullb = NULL Fix this problem by resuing the global mutex to protect nullb_device_power_store() and nullb_update_nr_hw_queues() from configfs. Fixes: 45919fbfe1c4 ("null_blk: Enable modifying 'submit_queues' after an instance has been configured") Reported-and-tested-by: Yi Zhang Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHj4cs9LgsHLnjg8z06LQ3Pr5cax-+Ps+xT7AP7TPnEjStuwZA@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai Reviewed-by: Zhu Yanjun Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240523153934.1937851-1-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe (cherry picked from commit a2db328b0839312c169eb42746ec46fc1ab53ed2) [Harshit: CVE-2024-36478; Resolve conflicts due to missing commit: e440626b1caf ("null_blk: pass queue_limits to blk_mq_alloc_disk") in 6.6.y] Signed-off-by: Harshit Mogalapalli Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

null_blk: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API

2024-10-10T09:58:08+00:00

[ Upstream commit 95931a245b44ee04f3359ec432e73614d44d8b38 ] ida_alloc() and ida_free() should be preferred to the deprecated ida_simple_get() and ida_simple_remove(). This is less verbose. Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/bf257b1078475a415cdc3344c6a750842946e367.1705222845.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe (cherry picked from commit 95931a245b44ee04f3359ec432e73614d44d8b38) [Harshit: backport to 6.6.y] Signed-off-by: Harshit Mogalapalli Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

null_blk: fix validation of block size

2024-07-25T07:50:43+00:00

[ Upstream commit c462ecd659b5fce731f1d592285832fd6ad54053 ] Block size should be between 512 and PAGE_SIZE and be a power of 2. The current check does not validate this, so update the check. Without this patch, null_blk would Oops due to a null pointer deref when loaded with bs=1536 [1]. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87wmn8mocd.fsf@metaspace.dk/ Signed-off-by: Andreas Hindborg Reviewed-by: Ming Lei Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240603192645.977968-1-nmi@metaspace.dk [axboe: remove unnecessary braces and != 0 check] Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

null_blk: Fix the WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION()

2024-06-12T09:12:44+00:00

[ Upstream commit 9e6727f824edcdb8fdd3e6e8a0862eb49546e1cd ] No functional changes intended. Fixes: f2298c0403b0 ("null_blk: multi queue aware block test driver") Signed-off-by: Zhu Yanjun Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240506075538.6064-1-yanjun.zhu@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

null_blk: Fix missing mutex_destroy() at module removal

2024-06-12T09:11:34+00:00

[ Upstream commit 07d1b99825f40f9c0d93e6b99d79a08d0717bac1 ] When a mutex lock is not used any more, the function mutex_destroy should be called to mark the mutex lock uninitialized. Fixes: f2298c0403b0 ("null_blk: multi queue aware block test driver") Signed-off-by: Zhu Yanjun Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240425171635.4227-1-yanjun.zhu@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

null_blk: don't cap max_hw_sectors to BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS

2024-01-25T23:35:29+00:00

[ Upstream commit 9a9525de865410047fa962867b4fcd33943b206f ] null_blk has some rather odd capping of the max_hw_sectors value to BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS, which doesn't make sense - max_hw_sector is the hardware limit, and BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS despite the confusing name is the default cap for the max_sectors field used for normal file system I/O. Remove all the capping, and simply leave it to the block layer or user to take up or not all of that for file system I/O. Fixes: ea17fd354ca8 ("null_blk: Allow controlling max_hw_sectors limit") Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231227092305.279567-2-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

null_blk: fix poll request timeout handling

2023-09-01T14:18:25+00:00

When doing io_uring benchmark on /dev/nullb0, it's easy to crash the kernel if poll requests timeout triggered, as reported by David. [1] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008 Workqueue: kblockd blk_mq_timeout_work RIP: 0010:null_timeout_rq+0x4e/0x91 Call Trace: ? null_timeout_rq+0x4e/0x91 blk_mq_handle_expired+0x31/0x4b bt_iter+0x68/0x84 ? bt_tags_iter+0x81/0x81 __sbitmap_for_each_set.constprop.0+0xb0/0xf2 ? __blk_mq_complete_request_remote+0xf/0xf bt_for_each+0x46/0x64 ? __blk_mq_complete_request_remote+0xf/0xf ? percpu_ref_get_many+0xc/0x2a blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter+0x14d/0x18e blk_mq_timeout_work+0x95/0x127 process_one_work+0x185/0x263 worker_thread+0x1b5/0x227 This is indeed a race problem between null_timeout_rq() and null_poll(). null_poll() null_timeout_rq() spin_lock(&nq->poll_lock) list_splice_init(&nq->poll_list, &list) spin_unlock(&nq->poll_lock) while (!list_empty(&list)) req = list_first_entry() list_del_init() ... blk_mq_add_to_batch() // req->rq_next = NULL spin_lock(&nq->poll_lock) // rq->queuelist->next == NULL list_del_init(&rq->queuelist) spin_unlock(&nq->poll_lock) Fix these problems by setting requests state to MQ_RQ_COMPLETE under nq->poll_lock protection, in which null_timeout_rq() can safely detect this race and early return. Note this patch just fix the kernel panic when request timeout happen. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/3893581.1691785261@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ Fixes: 0a593fbbc245 ("null_blk: poll queue support") Reported-by: David Howells Tested-by: David Howells Reviewed-by: Ming Lei Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230901120306.170520-2-chengming.zhou@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe