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From: Rihyeon Kim <rihyeon8648@gmail.com>
To: cassel@kernel.org
Cc: justin.tee@broadcom.com, nareshgottumukkala83@gmail.com,
	paul.ely@broadcom.com, kbusch@kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk,
	hch@lst.de, sagi@grimberg.me, kch@nvidia.com,
	stable@vger.kernel.org,
	syzbot+f58e57380a6083c4041d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme-fc: fix double free of fabrics options when nvme_add_ctrl() fails
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:18:15 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260817061815.154794-1-rihyeon8648@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260814143833.1953415-2-cassel@kernel.org>

Hello,

Thanks for the explanation, and for picking this up.

My testing of v1 and v2 never reached this case.  The syzbot config has
"# CONFIG_NVME_HOST_AUTH is not set", and I was not aware that the
dhchap option tokens are compiled out when it is disabled.  A connect
string containing dhchap_secret= is simply rejected, so every run I did
tore down with ctrl->dhchap_ctxs NULL, and there was no path that
dereferenced ctrl->opts.

I rebuilt with CONFIG_NVME_HOST_AUTH=y and swept fail-nth 1..200 over a
connect write containing dhchap_secret=.  You are right:

  clearing opts at out_put_ctrl:   dies at attempt 20
  this patch                       200/200, with 35 of the injections
                                   landing in nvme_add_ctrl()

  Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
        0xdffffc0000000008
  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000040-0x0000000000000047]
  RIP: 0010:nvme_auth_free+0x99/0x450
   nvme_free_ctrl+0x231/0x6c0

The injection for that attempt landed in kobj_map() under cdev_add(), so
this is the nvme_add_ctrl() failure path.  ctrl_max_dhchaps() then
dereferences ctrl->opts at offset 0x40.  Clearing the pointer really does
just trade the double free for this NULL pointer dereference.  Good catch.

Your version also addresses the two things I was unsure about in my
earlier mail: fail_unlist: covers the two exit paths after
list_add_tail(), and checking list_empty() while holding the lock keeps
ida_free(), put_device(), and nvme_fc_rport_put() on the unlisted path.

Dropping my v2 in favour of this one.

Tested-by: Rihyeon Kim <rihyeon8648@gmail.com>

Thanks,
Rihyeon


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-17  6:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-14 14:38 [PATCH] nvme-fc: fix double free of fabrics options when nvme_add_ctrl() fails Niklas Cassel
2026-08-14 16:30 ` Keith Busch
2026-08-17  6:18 ` Rihyeon Kim [this message]
2026-08-17 15:10   ` Niklas Cassel
2026-08-19 15:28     ` Keith Busch
2026-08-19 18:32       ` Niklas Cassel
2026-08-20 15:23         ` Keith Busch
2026-08-21 13:21           ` Niklas Cassel
2026-08-21 14:18             ` Keith Busch
2026-08-21 14:35               ` Keith Busch
2026-08-21 14:56               ` Niklas Cassel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2026-08-11  2:06 [syzbot] [nvme?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nvmf_free_options syzbot
2026-08-11 12:53 ` [PATCH] nvme-fc: fix double free of fabrics options when nvme_add_ctrl() fails Rihyeon Kim
2026-08-11 13:10   ` Niklas Cassel
2026-08-12 10:55     ` Rihyeon Kim
2026-08-12 10:59     ` Rihyeon Kim
2026-08-12 14:26       ` Niklas Cassel
2026-08-12 14:30         ` Niklas Cassel
2026-08-11 15:29   ` Keith Busch
2026-08-12 10:55     ` Rihyeon Kim
2026-08-12 10:59     ` Rihyeon Kim

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