[PATCH v3 0/2] md/raid10: fix r10bio width mismatches across reshape

From: Chen Cheng

Date: Sun May 24 2026 - 21:56:05 EST


From: Chen Cheng <chencheng@xxxxxxxxx>

Hi,

This series fixes slab out-of-bounds accesses in raid10 when reshape changes
the number of raid disks while regular I/O is still reusing r10bio objects
allocated under the previous geometry.

The bug is reproducible with a simple 4-disk to 5-disk reshape under write
load, for example:

mdadm -C /dev/md777 -l10 -n4 /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd
mkfs.ext4 /dev/md777
mount /dev/md777 /mnt/test
fsstress -d /mnt/test -n 24000 -p 8 -l 24 &
mdadm /dev/md777 --add /dev/sde
mdadm --grow /dev/md777 --raid-devices=5 \
--backup-file=/tmp/md-reshape-backup

Without these changes, an r10bio allocated under the old geometry can later be
reused, initialized, or freed after conf->geo.raid_disks has switched to the
new geometry. This creates width mismatches between the object and the current
devs[] walk/initialization width, which can trigger KASAN reports such as
slab-out-of-bounds in __make_request(), put_all_bios(), or find_bio_disk().

This series addresses the problem in two steps:

1. make the regular r10bio pool fixed-size across reshape transitions, and
move the pool rebuild into the freeze window before the live geometry
switch;

2. track the number of valid devs[] entries in each reused r10bio and use
that recorded width when walking devs[] after reshape.


Changes in v3:
- Replace freeze_array()/unfreeze_array() in raid10_start_reshape() with
mddev_suspend_and_lock_nointr()/mddev_unlock_and_resume(). freeze_array()
returns when nr_pending == nr_queued, which still allows retry-list items
to hold pool objects; mddev_suspend() provides the correct upper-layer
quiesce interface. (Suggested by Yu Kuai)


Changes in v2:
- add this cover letter
- convert r10bio_pool to a fixed-size kmalloc mempool
- rebuild r10bio_pool inside the freeze window before switching live reshape
geometry
- switch raid10_quiesce() to freeze_array()/unfreeze_array()


Testing:
- reproduced the original KASAN slab-out-of-bounds on 4-disk -> 5-disk
raid10 reshape with fsstress
- verified that this series fixes that reproducer
- exercised the 5-disk -> 4-disk reshape direction as well

Thanks,
Chen Cheng

Chen Cheng (2):
md/raid10: make r10bio_pool use fixed-size objects
md/raid10: bound reused r10bio devs[] walks by used_nr_devs

drivers/md/raid10.c | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
drivers/md/raid10.h | 4 ++-
2 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

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