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md: fix create on open mddev lifetime regression
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-94433 commit 1df1fc8 Author: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com> Date: Wed Jul 30 15:33:21 2025 +0800 md: fix create on open mddev lifetime regression Commit 9e59d60 ("md: call del_gendisk in control path") moves setting MD_DELETED from __mddev_put() to do_md_stop(), however, for the case create on open, mddev can be freed without do_md_stop(): 1) open md_probe md_alloc_and_put md_alloc mddev_alloc atomic_set(&mddev->active, 1); mddev->hold_active = UNTIL_IOCTL mddev_put atomic_dec_and_test(&mddev->active) if (mddev->hold_active) -> active is 0, hold_active is set md_open mddev_get atomic_inc(&mddev->active); 2) ioctl that is not STOP_ARRAY, for example, GET_ARRAY_INFO: md_ioctl mddev->hold_active = 0 3) close md_release mddev_put(mddev); atomic_dec_and_lock(&mddev->active, &all_mddevs_lock) __mddev_put -> hold_active is cleared, mddev will be freed queue_work(md_misc_wq, &mddev->del_work) Now that MD_DELETED is not set, before mddev is freed by mddev_delayed_delete(), md_open can still succeed and break mddev lifetime, causing mddev->kobj refcount underflow or mddev uaf problem. Fix this problem by setting MD_DELETED before queuing del_work. Reported-by: syzbot+9921e319bd6168140b40@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68894408.a00a0220.26d0e1.0012.GAE@google.com/ Reported-by: syzbot+fa3a12519f0d3fd4ec16@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68894408.a00a0220.26d0e1.0013.GAE@google.com/ Fixes: 9e59d60 ("md: call del_gendisk in control path") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-raid/20250730073321.2583158-1-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de> Reviewed-by: Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com> (cherry picked from commit 1df1fc8) Signed-off-by: Nigel Croxon <ncroxon@redhat.com>
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drivers/md/md.c

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@@ -637,6 +637,12 @@ static void __mddev_put(struct mddev *mddev)
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mddev->ctime || mddev->hold_active)
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return;
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/*
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* If array is freed by stopping array, MD_DELETED is set by
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* do_md_stop(), MD_DELETED is still set here in case mddev is freed
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* directly by closing a mddev that is created by create_on_open.
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*/
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set_bit(MD_DELETED, &mddev->flags);
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/*
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* Call queue_work inside the spinlock so that flush_workqueue() after
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* mddev_find will succeed in waiting for the work to be done.

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