Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] nvme: a few error-path and validation fixes

On Tue, Aug 04, 2026 at 10:18:56AM +0800, Guixin Liu wrote:
> 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.

#4 was handled by a earlier and different patch, so I dropped that one,
and patch 5 had to accomodate. I've applied the result to nvme-7.3.