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From: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
To: josef@toxicpanda.com, axboe@kernel.dk, edumazet@google.com
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, nbd@other.debian.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>,
	syzbot+6b85d1e39a5b8ed9a954@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] nbd: don't warn when reclassifying a busy socket lock
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:22:55 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260621235255.66015-1-kartikey406@gmail.com> (raw)


nbd_reclassify_socket() warns via WARN_ON_ONCE() if the socket lock is
held at the point of reclassification. That assertion was copied from
nvme-tcp, where the socket is created internally by the kernel
(sock_create_kern()) and is never visible to user space, so the lock
is guaranteed to be free.

NBD is different: the socket is looked up from a user-supplied fd in
nbd_get_socket(), and user space retains that fd. A concurrent syscall
on the same socket (or softirq processing taking bh_lock_sock() on a
connected TCP socket) can legitimately hold the lock at the instant
NBD reclassifies it. sock_allow_reclassification() then returns false
and the WARN_ON_ONCE() fires, which turns into a crash under
panic_on_warn. This is reachable by simply racing NBD_CMD_CONNECT
against socket activity on the same fd, as reported by syzbot.

Hitting a held lock here is expected for an externally owned socket and
is not a kernel bug, so skip reclassification silently instead of
warning. Reclassification is a lockdep-only annotation, so skipping it
in the rare racing case is harmless.

Reported-by: syzbot+6b85d1e39a5b8ed9a954@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=6b85d1e39a5b8ed9a954
Fixes: d532cddb6c60 ("nbd: Reclassify sockets to avoid lockdep circular dependency")
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/block/nbd.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
index 3a585a0c882a..8f10762e90ef 100644
--- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
@@ -1246,7 +1246,7 @@ static void nbd_reclassify_socket(struct socket *sock)
 {
 	struct sock *sk = sock->sk;
 
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!sock_allow_reclassification(sk)))
+	if (!sock_allow_reclassification(sk))
 		return;
 
 	switch (sk->sk_family) {
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-06-21 23:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-21 23:52 Deepanshu Kartikey [this message]
2026-06-22  1:43 ` [PATCH] nbd: don't warn when reclassifying a busy socket lock Hillf Danton
2026-06-22  8:18   ` Eric Dumazet
2026-06-22  8:31 ` Eric Dumazet

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