[PATCH 5.10.y] dm: fix NULL pointer dereference in __dm_suspend()

Sasha Levin
2025-10-14T03:03:37Z

From: Zheng Qixing <zhengqixing@huawei.com>

[ Upstream commit 8d33a030c566e1f105cd5bf27f37940b6367f3be ]

There is a race condition between dm device suspend and table load that
can lead to null pointer dereference. The issue occurs when suspend is
invoked before table load completes:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000054
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 6 PID: 6798 Comm: dmsetup Not tainted 6.6.0-g7e52f5f0ca9b #62
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.1-2.fc37 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:blk_mq_wait_quiesce_done+0x0/0x50
Call Trace:
<TASK>
blk_mq_quiesce_queue+0x2c/0x50
dm_stop_queue+0xd/0x20
__dm_suspend+0x130/0x330
dm_suspend+0x11a/0x180
dev_suspend+0x27e/0x560
ctl_ioctl+0x4cf/0x850
dm_ctl_ioctl+0xd/0x20
vfs_ioctl+0x1d/0x50
__se_sys_ioctl+0x9b/0xc0
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x19/0x30
x64_sys_call+0x2c4a/0x4620
do_syscall_64+0x9e/0x1b0

The issue can be triggered as below:

T1 T2
dm_suspend table_load
__dm_suspend dm_setup_md_queue
dm_mq_init_request_queue
blk_mq_init_allocated_queue
=> q->mq_ops = set->ops; (1)
dm_stop_queue / dm_wait_for_completion
=> q->tag_set NULL pointer! (2)
=> q->tag_set = set; (3)

Fix this by checking if a valid table (map) exists before performing
request-based suspend and waiting for target I/O. When map is NULL,
skip these table-dependent suspend steps.

Even when map is NULL, no I/O can reach any target because there is
no table loaded; I/O submitted in this state will fail early in the
DM layer. Skipping the table-dependent suspend logic in this case
is safe and avoids NULL pointer dereferences.

Fixes: c4576aed8d85 ("dm: fix request-based dm's use of dm_wait_for_completion")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zheng Qixing <zhengqixing@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
[ omitted DMF_QUEUE_STOPPED flag setting and braces absent in 5.15 ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/md/dm.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c
index 0868358a7a8d2..b51281ce15d4c 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -2457,7 +2457,7 @@ static int __dm_suspend(struct mapped_device *md, struct dm_table *map,
{
bool do_lockfs = suspend_flags & DM_SUSPEND_LOCKFS_FLAG;
bool noflush = suspend_flags & DM_SUSPEND_NOFLUSH_FLAG;
- int r;
+ int r = 0;

lockdep_assert_held(&md->suspend_lock);

@@ -2509,7 +2509,7 @@ static int __dm_suspend(struct mapped_device *md, struct dm_table *map,
* Stop md->queue before flushing md->wq in case request-based
* dm defers requests to md->wq from md->queue.
*/
- if (dm_request_based(md))
+ if (map && dm_request_based(md))
dm_stop_queue(md->queue);

flush_workqueue(md->wq);
@@ -2519,7 +2519,8 @@ static int __dm_suspend(struct mapped_device *md, struct dm_table *map,
* We call dm_wait_for_completion to wait for all existing requests
* to finish.
*/
- r = dm_wait_for_completion(md, task_state);
+ if (map)
+ r = dm_wait_for_completion(md, task_state);
if (!r)
set_bit(dmf_suspended_flag, &md->flags);

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2.51.0