From: Yung-Tse Cheng <mes900903@gmail.com>
To: gmaglione@redhat.com, vgoyal@redhat.com, stefanha@redhat.com,
miklos@szeredi.hu
Cc: eperezma@redhat.com, virtualization@lists.linux.dev,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Yung-Tse Cheng <mes900903@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] virtio-fs: avoid double-free on failed queue setup
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2026 03:30:39 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260405193039.178506-1-mes900903@gmail.com> (raw)
virtio_fs_setup_vqs() allocates fs->vqs and fs->mq_map before calling
virtio_find_vqs(). If virtio_find_vqs() fails, the error path frees both
pointers and returns an error to virtio_fs_probe().
virtio_fs_probe() then drops the last kobject reference, and
virtio_fs_ktype_release() frees fs->vqs and fs->mq_map again. This leaves
dangling pointers in struct virtio_fs and can trigger a double-free during
probe failure cleanup.
Set fs->vqs and fs->mq_map to NULL immediately after kfree() in the
virtio_fs_setup_vqs() error path so that the later kobject release sees an
uninitialized state and kfree(NULL) becomes harmless.
Signed-off-by: Yung-Tse Cheng <mes900903@gmail.com>
---
This can be reproduced when a broken virtio-fs device advertises more
request queues than the transport actually provides. In that case
virtio_find_vqs() fails while setting up the extra queue, and the probe
path reaches the double-free cleanup sequence.
fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c b/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c
index 057e65b51b99d..e33241e1b8ad9 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c
@@ -988,7 +988,9 @@ static int virtio_fs_setup_vqs(struct virtio_device *vdev,
kfree(vqs);
if (ret) {
kfree(fs->vqs);
+ fs->vqs = NULL;
kfree(fs->mq_map);
+ fs->mq_map = NULL;
}
return ret;
}
base-commit: 3aae9383f42f687221c011d7ee87529398e826b3
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2.43.0
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