From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Caleb Sander Mateos <csander@purestorage.com>,
Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com>,
Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ublk: reset kernel-owned dev_info fields in ublk_ctrl_add_dev()
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:50:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260726145025.1507383-1-tom.leiming@gmail.com> (raw)
ublk_ctrl_add_dev() memcpy()s the userspace ublksrv_ctrl_dev_info into
ub->dev_info and then fixes up the fields the driver owns, but misses
->state and ->ublksrv_pid.
A device added with ->state = UBLK_S_DEV_LIVE passes the
"->state != UBLK_S_DEV_DEAD" test that ublk_stop_dev_unlocked() uses as its
proxy for "a disk is attached", while ->ub_disk is still NULL, so DEL_DEV
right after ADD_DEV oopses in del_gendisk(). UBLK_S_DEV_QUIESCED plus
UBLK_F_USER_RECOVERY dies one step earlier, in ublk_force_abort_dev(). A
poisoned ->state also gets START_USER_RECOVERY and the char device
read/write path onto a device that was never started, and wedges START_DEV
at -EEXIST. A poisoned ->ublksrv_pid just makes GET_DEV_INFO report an
unrelated task as the ublk server.
Reset both after the memcpy(), as ublk_detach_disk() does. Userspace only
ever reads these back, so correcting them silently breaks nothing.
ADD_DEV has copied ->state in unsanitized since ublk was merged, but back
then it was harmless: the gendisk was allocated during ADD_DEV, and both
teardown and the START_DEV -EEXIST check keyed off disk_live() rather than
->state. The oops became reachable once the disk allocation moved to
START_DEV and those checks switched to ->state.
Fixes: 6d9e6dfdf3b2 ("ublk: defer disk allocation")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
---
drivers/block/ublk_drv.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c b/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c
index 4ca6ec738c93..2a22f9dc1f2f 100644
--- a/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c
@@ -4764,6 +4764,15 @@ static int ublk_ctrl_add_dev(const struct ublksrv_ctrl_cmd *header)
/* update device id */
ub->dev_info.dev_id = ub->ub_number;
+ /*
+ * ->state and ->ublksrv_pid are owned by the driver and only read back
+ * by userspace, but they come from the copied-in dev_info, so reset
+ * them. Otherwise a device added with ->state != DEAD looks live while
+ * ->ub_disk is still NULL.
+ */
+ ub->dev_info.state = UBLK_S_DEV_DEAD;
+ ub->dev_info.ublksrv_pid = -1;
+
/*
* 64bit flags will be copied back to userspace as feature
* negotiation result, so have to clear flags which driver
--
2.55.0
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