Forwarded: [PATCH] nbd: don't warn when reclassifying a busy socket lock

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Date: Sun Jun 21 2026 - 19:51:00 EST


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Subject: [PATCH] nbd: don't warn when reclassifying a busy socket lock
Author: kartikey406@xxxxxxxxx

#syz test: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git master


nbd_reclassify_socket() warns via WARN_ON_ONCE() if the socket lock is
held at the point of reclassification. That assertion was copied from
nvme-tcp, where the socket is created internally by the kernel
(sock_create_kern()) and is never visible to user space, so the lock
is guaranteed to be free.

NBD is different: the socket is looked up from a user-supplied fd in
nbd_get_socket(), and user space retains that fd. A concurrent syscall
on the same socket (or softirq processing taking bh_lock_sock() on a
connected TCP socket) can legitimately hold the lock at the instant
NBD reclassifies it. sock_allow_reclassification() then returns false
and the WARN_ON_ONCE() fires, which turns into a crash under
panic_on_warn. This is reachable by simply racing NBD_CMD_CONNECT
against socket activity on the same fd, as reported by syzbot.

Hitting a held lock here is expected for an externally owned socket and
is not a kernel bug, so skip reclassification silently instead of
warning. Reclassification is a lockdep-only annotation, so skipping it
in the rare racing case is harmless.

Reported-by: syzbot+6b85d1e39a5b8ed9a954@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=6b85d1e39a5b8ed9a954
Fixes: d532cddb6c60 ("nbd: Reclassify sockets to avoid lockdep circular dependency")
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/nbd.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
index 3a585a0c882a..8f10762e90ef 100644
--- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
@@ -1246,7 +1246,7 @@ static void nbd_reclassify_socket(struct socket *sock)
{
struct sock *sk = sock->sk;

- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!sock_allow_reclassification(sk)))
+ if (!sock_allow_reclassification(sk))
return;

switch (sk->sk_family) {
--
2.43.0