* [PATCH] virtio-fs: avoid double-free on failed queue setup
@ 2026-04-05 19:30 Yung-Tse Cheng
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From: Yung-Tse Cheng @ 2026-04-05 19:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gmaglione, vgoyal, stefanha, miklos
Cc: eperezma, virtualization, linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel,
Yung-Tse Cheng
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
--
2.43.0
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