From: Chengfeng Ye <dg573847474@gmail.com>
To: "James E . J . Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@cloud.ionos.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Chengfeng Ye <dg573847474@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] scsi: pm8001: Fix potential TOCTOU race in pm8001_find_tag
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2026 10:19:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260117101948.297411-1-dg573847474@gmail.com> (raw)
A potential time-of-check-time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition in
pm8001_find_tag() where task->lldd_task is checked for non-NULL
and then dereferenced without synchronization to ensure atomicity.
Since the check of NULL and dereference in pm8001_find_tag() is not
executed atomically, a race could occur if the callback is executed in
response to an error or timeout on a SAS task issued from the SCSI
midlayer, while the SAS command is completed and calls
pm8001_ccb_task_free(), which sets task->lldd_task to NULL, resulting
in a null pointer being dereferenced in pm8001_find_tag().
Possible race scenario:
CPU0 (Error Handler) CPU1 (Interrupt Handler)
-------------------- ------------------------
[SCSI command timeout/error]
sas_scsi_recover_host()
sas_scsi_find_task()
lldd_query_task()
pm8001_query_task()
pm8001_find_tag()
if (task->lldd_task)
[Hardware interrupt]
mpi_ssp_completion()
pm8001_ccb_task_free()
task->lldd_task = NULL
ccb = task->lldd_task
*tag = ccb->ccb_tag
<- NULL dereference
Fix this by using READ_ONCE() to read task->lldd_task exactly once,
eliminating the TOCTOU window. Also use WRITE_ONCE() in
pm8001_ccb_task_free() for proper memory ordering.
Signed-off-by: Chengfeng Ye <dg573847474@gmail.com>
---
drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_sas.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_sas.c b/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_sas.c
index 6a8d35aea93a..2d73e65db4c0 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_sas.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_sas.c
@@ -49,9 +49,10 @@
*/
static int pm8001_find_tag(struct sas_task *task, u32 *tag)
{
- if (task->lldd_task) {
- struct pm8001_ccb_info *ccb;
- ccb = task->lldd_task;
+ struct pm8001_ccb_info *ccb;
+
+ ccb = READ_ONCE(task->lldd_task);
+ if (ccb) {
*tag = ccb->ccb_tag;
return 1;
}
@@ -617,7 +618,7 @@ void pm8001_ccb_task_free(struct pm8001_hba_info *pm8001_ha,
pm8001_dev ? atomic_read(&pm8001_dev->running_req) : -1);
}
- task->lldd_task = NULL;
+ WRITE_ONCE(task->lldd_task, NULL);
pm8001_ccb_free(pm8001_ha, ccb);
}
--
2.25.1
next reply other threads:[~2026-01-17 10:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-17 10:19 Chengfeng Ye [this message]
2026-01-18 9:42 ` [PATCH] scsi: pm8001: Fix potential TOCTOU race in pm8001_find_tag Markus Elfring
2026-01-19 15:24 ` Chengfeng Ye
2026-01-19 16:39 ` James Bottomley
2026-01-19 16:50 ` Chengfeng Ye
2026-01-20 3:42 ` James Bottomley
2026-01-20 4:39 ` Chengfeng Ye
2026-01-20 14:28 ` James Bottomley
2026-01-20 16:39 ` Chengfeng Ye
2026-01-20 23:43 ` Finn Thain
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