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* [PATCH] ublk: reset kernel-owned dev_info fields in ublk_ctrl_add_dev()
@ 2026-07-26 14:50 Ming Lei
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From: Ming Lei @ 2026-07-26 14:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jens Axboe, linux-block
  Cc: Caleb Sander Mateos, Uday Shankar, Ming Lei, stable

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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