Forwarded: [PATCH] configfs: unhash dentry before dropping the item

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Date: Mon Sep 14 2026 - 03:52:03 EST


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Subject: [PATCH] configfs: unhash dentry before dropping the item
Author: jchuang26@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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

Reported-by: syzbot+9e3014263a35700ab49b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 680b34a63..bcc32b83c 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -1393,7 +1393,11 @@ static int super_90_load(struct md_rdev *rdev, struct md_rdev *refdev, int minor
goto abort;
}

- if (sb->raid_disks <= 0)
+ /*
+ * sb->disks[] has only MD_SB_DISKS entries. A larger raid_disks
+ * count would later make super_90_sync() index past that array.
+ */
+ if (sb->raid_disks <= 0 || sb->raid_disks > MD_SB_DISKS)
goto abort;

if (md_csum_fold(calc_sb_csum(sb)) != md_csum_fold(sb->sb_csum)) {
@@ -1607,6 +1611,18 @@ static void super_90_sync(struct mddev *mddev, struct md_rdev *rdev)
struct md_rdev *rdev2;
int next_spare = mddev->raid_disks;

+ /*
+ * A 0.90 superblock has a fixed-size mdp_disk_t array and uses
+ * raid_disks as both a loop bound and the first spare disk slot.
+ * Never index sb->disks[] if an invalid raid_disks value reached
+ * us through any configuration path.
+ */
+ if (mddev->raid_disks < 0 || mddev->raid_disks > MD_SB_DISKS) {
+ pr_warn("md: %s: invalid raid_disks %d for 0.90 metadata\n",
+ mdname(mddev), mddev->raid_disks);
+ return;
+ }
+
/* make rdev->sb match mddev data..
*
* 1/ zero out disks
@@ -4448,8 +4464,19 @@ raid_disks_store(struct mddev *mddev, const char *buf, size_t len)
mddev->delta_disks = n - olddisks;
mddev->raid_disks = n;
mddev->reshape_backwards = (mddev->delta_disks < 0);
- } else
- mddev->raid_disks = n;
+ } else {
+ /*
+ * 0.90 metadata only has room for MD_SB_DISKS descriptors.
+ * Larger values would make super_90_sync() index beyond
+ * sb->disks[].
+ */
+ if ((mddev->persistent && mddev->major_version == 0 &&
+ n > MD_SB_DISKS) ||
+ (mddev->max_disks && n > mddev->max_disks))
+ err = -EINVAL;
+ else
+ mddev->raid_disks = n;
+ }
out_unlock:
memalloc_noio_restore(noio_flags);
mddev_unlock_and_resume(mddev);
@@ -7926,6 +7953,18 @@ int md_set_array_info(struct mddev *mddev, struct mdu_array_info_s *info)
mddev->ctime = ktime_get_real_seconds();
return 0;
}
+
+ /*
+ * Persistent 0.90 metadata stores disks in sb->disks[MD_SB_DISKS].
+ * A larger raid_disks count would make super_90_sync() index past
+ * that array; non-persistent arrays have no such on-disk limit.
+ */
+ if (info->raid_disks < 0 ||
+ (!info->not_persistent && info->raid_disks > MD_SB_DISKS)) {
+ pr_warn("md: invalid raid_disks %d\n", info->raid_disks);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
mddev->major_version = MD_MAJOR_VERSION;
mddev->minor_version = MD_MINOR_VERSION;
mddev->patch_version = MD_PATCHLEVEL_VERSION;