[PATCH v5 08/29] md/md-llbitmap: prevent create failure bitmap UAF
Yu Kuai <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Aug 2026 03:50:17 +0800
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.raid |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
From: Yu Kuai <[email protected]> llbitmap_create() publishes mddev->bitmap before reading the bitmap superblock. This is needed because llbitmap_read_sb() can initialize a new bitmap and flush it through helpers that use mddev->bitmap. If llbitmap_read_sb() fails, the old cleanup dropped bitmap_info.mutex and freed llbitmap before clearing mddev->bitmap. Readers such as /proc/mdstat rely on bitmap_info.mutex to keep the bitmap pointer stable while collecting bitmap stats, so they could observe the stale pointer after the failed create path released the mutex. Clear mddev->bitmap while still holding bitmap_info.mutex, then free the failed llbitmap after dropping the mutex. This makes mutex-protected readers see either a live bitmap or no bitmap. Fixes: 5ab829f1971d ("md/md-llbitmap: introduce new lockless bitmap") Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <[email protected]> --- drivers/md/md-llbitmap.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/md-llbitmap.c b/drivers/md/md-llbitmap.c index 948bf64c5ad2..af80a630bd21 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md-llbitmap.c +++ b/drivers/md/md-llbitmap.c @@ -1126,10 +1126,11 @@ static int llbitmap_create(struct mddev *mddev) mutex_lock(&mddev->bitmap_info.mutex); mddev->bitmap = llbitmap; ret = llbitmap_read_sb(llbitmap); + if (ret) + mddev->bitmap = NULL; mutex_unlock(&mddev->bitmap_info.mutex); if (ret) { kfree(llbitmap); - mddev->bitmap = NULL; } return ret; -- 2.51.0