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[PATCH v2] md/raid1: prevent a race between write and stop request

From: Edward Adam Davis <hidden>
Date: 2026-08-28 10:50:33
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: software raid (multiple disks) support, the rest · Maintainers: Song Liu, Yu Kuai, Linus Torvalds

A race condition exists between write and stop requests, leading to a
null-ptr-deref in [1].

CPU0				CPU1
====				====
md_submit_bio()
md_handle_request()		do_md_stop()
raid1_make_request()		 __md_stop()
raid1_write_request()		   mddev->private = NULL
wait_barrier()
conf->nr_pending //trigger [1]

The intervention of a stop request causes inconsistencies in the state
of mddev members (such as private and pers) while a write request is
executing; the mddev lock is used to synchronize write and stop requests,
thereby ensuring consistent mddev state throughout the execution of the
write request.

Additionally, when a write operation reaches the RAID1 layer, if a stop
request acquires the mddev lock first and releases mddev->private, the
bio is terminated and the write request exits.
	
[1]
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000120-0x0000000000000127]
RIP: 0010:_wait_barrier+0x8d/0x700 drivers/md/raid1.c:1066
Call Trace:
 wait_barrier drivers/md/raid1.c:1154 [inline]
 raid1_write_request drivers/md/raid1.c:1506 [inline]
 raid1_make_request+0x484/0x31a0 drivers/md/raid1.c:1696
 md_handle_request+0x824/0x1230 drivers/md/md.c:417
 md_submit_bio+0x1e9/0x350 drivers/md/md.c:458
 __submit_bio block/blk-core.c:681 [inline]
 __submit_bio+0x20e/0x3d0 block/blk-core.c:670
 __submit_bio_noacct block/blk-core.c:724 [inline]
 submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x736/0xc00 block/blk-core.c:792
 submit_bio_noacct+0xc93/0x2130 block/blk-core.c:925
 bio_await+0x1fa/0x240 block/bio.c:1580
 submit_bio_wait+0x19/0x60 block/bio.c:1598
 __blkdev_direct_IO_simple+0x4cb/0x8c0 block/fops.c:98
 blkdev_direct_IO+0xbee/0x2030 block/fops.c:429
 blkdev_direct_write block/fops.c:699 [inline]
 blkdev_write_iter+0x703/0xd30 block/fops.c:767
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x6af/0x1050 fs/read_write.c:687

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: syzbot+3fe892ea5fc292e1353f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=3fe892ea5fc292e1353f
Tested-by: syzbot+3fe892ea5fc292e1353f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Edward Adam Davis <redacted>
---
v1 -> v2: typo in comments

 drivers/md/raid1.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c
index f0646fb24371..3b9f1fa65e65 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c
@@ -1674,6 +1674,7 @@ static bool raid1_write_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio,
 static bool raid1_make_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio)
 {
 	sector_t sectors;
+	blk_status_t status;
 
 	if (unlikely(bio->bi_opf & REQ_PREFLUSH)
 	    && md_flush_request(mddev, bio))
@@ -1692,11 +1693,36 @@ static bool raid1_make_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio)
 	if (bio_data_dir(bio) == READ)
 		raid1_read_request(mddev, bio, sectors, NULL);
 	else {
+		int err;
+
 		md_write_start(mddev, bio);
-		if (!raid1_write_request(mddev, bio, sectors))
+		err = mddev_lock(mddev);
+
+		if (err < 0) {
+			md_write_end(mddev);
+			status = BLK_STS_IOERR;
+			goto done;
+		}
+
+		if (!mddev->private) {
+			mddev_unlock(mddev);
+			md_write_end(mddev);
+			status = BLK_STS_OFFLINE;
+			goto done;
+		}
+
+		err = raid1_write_request(mddev, bio, sectors);
+		mddev_unlock(mddev);
+
+		if (!err)
 			md_write_end(mddev);
 	}
+out:
 	return true;
+done:
+	bio->bi_status = status;
+	bio_endio(bio);
+	goto out;
 }
 
 static void raid1_status(struct seq_file *seq, struct mddev *mddev)
-- 
2.43.0
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