[PATCH v3 0/5] nvme: a few error-path and validation fixes
Guixin Liu <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Aug 2026 10:18:56 +0800
| Newsgroups | org.infradead.lists.linux-nvme |
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This series collects independent fixes found while auditing error and
command-processing paths in the NVMe host and target drivers. Each is
standalone; they only share the same subsystem.
1. nvmet: an Identify CNS 07h (active NS list for a command set)
dereferences req->ns, which is always NULL on that path -> NULL
pointer oops. Also fixes the filter to test the iterated ns->csi.
2. nvmet: nvmet_ns_enable() ignores the percpu_ref_init() return value
and reports success to userspace when it fails, leaving the ns dead.
3. nvme-pci: the per-NUMA-node descriptor DMA pools, created lazily on
admin tag set allocation, are only freed in nvme_remove(); a probe
failure after that point leaks them.
4. nvme: nvme_query_fdp_info() trusts the device-supplied nruhsd count
and can read past the fixed-size RUH status buffer (heap OOB read).
5. nvme: follow-up to #4, suggested by Kanchan -- the RUH status buffer
and the placement handle clamp used the odd S8_MAX - 1 value; raise
the cap to the meaningful U8_MAX (bio->bi_write_stream is u8) and
warn on overflow.
Found by code audit. #1 and #2 are functional/crash fixes; #3 is a
resource leak; #4 is device-triggered hardening; #5 tidies up the cap
introduced by #4.
A blktests regression test for #1 (Identify CNS 07h) will be sent
separately to the blktests list.
v2 -> v3:
- patch 5: addressed Kanchan's review -- move the overflow check below
the zero-length check and fold the clamp into the warn branch (drop
min_t, assign NVME_MAX_PLIDS directly); collected his Reviewed-by.
v1 -> v2:
- Collected Reviewed-by tags from Hannes, Christoph, Kanchan and Nilay,
thanks.
- patch 1: added the observed NULL-deref oops splat to the commit log.
- Added patch 5 (raise the FDP handle cap to U8_MAX and warn on
overflow), as discussed on patch 4 with Keith, Christoph and Kanchan.
Guixin Liu (5):
nvmet: fix NULL pointer dereference in nvmet_execute_identify_nslist()
nvmet: propagate percpu_ref_init() failure in nvmet_ns_enable()
nvme-pci: release descriptor pools on probe failure
nvme: clamp FDP placement handle count to the buffer size
nvme: raise FDP placement handle cap to U8_MAX and warn on overflow
drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 1 +
drivers/nvme/target/admin-cmd.c | 2 +-
drivers/nvme/target/core.c | 3 ++-
4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
base-commit: 11028ab62899e4191e074ee364c712b77823a9c4
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