[PATCH 6.1 0960/1191] nvmet: fix NULL pointer dereference in nvmet_execute_identify_ns_zns()

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Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date
2026-09-12 16:40:59
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Greg Kroah-Hartman, 2026-09-12
6.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Guixin Liu <redacted>

[ Upstream commit f594863967d87b7fcbff6e724d51135fd701a13d ]

When a host issues an Identify command with CNS 05h (I/O Command Set
specific Identify Namespace) and CSI 02h (ZNS) targeting a file-backed
namespace, nvmet_execute_identify_ns_zns() calls bdev_is_zoned() on
req->ns->bdev. A file-backed namespace has no block device, so
req->ns->bdev is NULL and bdev_is_zoned() dereferences it, oopsing.

The I/O command set is selected by the host-supplied CSI field and the
command is routed here whenever CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED is enabled,
independent of the namespace backing type, so any file-backed namespace
is exposed.

Reject the command with Invalid Field when the namespace is not backed
by a block device.

Fixes: aaf2e048af27 ("nvmet: add ZBD over ZNS backend support")
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Guixin Liu <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/nvme/target/zns.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/zns.c b/drivers/nvme/target/zns.c
index 7bc3fae63dcf7..bb512a88053df 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/zns.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/zns.c
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ void nvmet_execute_identify_cns_cs_ns(struct nvmet_req *req)
 		mutex_unlock(&req->ns->subsys->lock);
 	}
 
-	if (!bdev_is_zoned(req->ns->bdev)) {
+	if (!req->ns->bdev || !bdev_is_zoned(req->ns->bdev)) {
 		status = NVME_SC_INVALID_FIELD | NVME_STATUS_DNR;
 		req->error_loc = offsetof(struct nvme_identify, nsid);
 		goto out;
-- 
2.53.0


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