[PATCH 6.18 075/122] nvmet: fix race in nvmet_bio_done() leading to NULL pointer dereference

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-04T15:32:04Z

From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>

commit 0fcee2cfc4b2e16e62ff8e0cc2cd8dd24efad65e upstream.

There is a race condition in nvmet_bio_done() that can cause a NULL
pointer dereference in blk_cgroup_bio_start():

1. nvmet_bio_done() is called when a bio completes
2. nvmet_req_complete() is called, which invokes req->ops->queue_response(req)
3. The queue_response callback can re-queue and re-submit the same request
4. The re-submission reuses the same inline_bio from nvmet_req
5. Meanwhile, nvmet_req_bio_put() (called after nvmet_req_complete)
invokes bio_uninit() for inline_bio, which sets bio->bi_blkg to NULL
6. The re-submitted bio enters submit_bio_noacct_nocheck()
7. blk_cgroup_bio_start() dereferences bio->bi_blkg, causing a crash:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
RIP: 0010:blk_cgroup_bio_start+0x10/0xd0
Call Trace:
submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x44/0x250
nvmet_bdev_execute_rw+0x254/0x370 [nvmet]
process_one_work+0x193/0x3c0
worker_thread+0x281/0x3a0

Fix this by reordering nvmet_bio_done() to call nvmet_req_bio_put()
BEFORE nvmet_req_complete(). This ensures the bio is cleaned up before
the request can be re-submitted, preventing the race condition.

Fixes: 190f4c2c863a ("nvmet: fix memory leak of bio integrity")
Cc: Dmitry Bogdanov <d.bogdanov@yadro.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Guangwu Zhang <guazhang@redhat.com>
Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-kernel@lists.debian.org/msg146238.html
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/nvme/target/io-cmd-bdev.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/nvme/target/io-cmd-bdev.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/io-cmd-bdev.c
@@ -180,9 +180,10 @@ u16 blk_to_nvme_status(struct nvmet_req
static void nvmet_bio_done(struct bio *bio)
{
struct nvmet_req *req = bio->bi_private;
+ blk_status_t blk_status = bio->bi_status;

- nvmet_req_complete(req, blk_to_nvme_status(req, bio->bi_status));
nvmet_req_bio_put(req, bio);
+ nvmet_req_complete(req, blk_to_nvme_status(req, blk_status));
}

#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY