[PATCH 1/1] xen-blkfront: unbind irq before tearing down ring and shadow requests

From: Yuchao Zhang

Date: Fri Sep 18 2026 - 08:24:58 EST


In blkif_free_ring(), the driver tears down the ring's persistent grants,
shadow request arrays, and shared ring structure (xenbus_teardown_ring),
and only calls unbind_from_irqhandler() at the very end.

While blkif_free_ring() is freeing persistent grants and clearing the
shadow array, the event channel interrupt (blkif_interrupt) is still
registered and active. If an interrupt arrives from the backend during
this teardown window, blkif_interrupt() reads rinfo->ring.sring and,
via blkif_completion(), accesses rinfo->shadow[id].grants_used and
rinfo->shadow[id].sg. blkif_free_ring() tears these structures down
without holding rinfo->ring_lock, and the handler only checks
info->connected at entry, so this is a real race resulting in a
use-after-free or NULL pointer dereference.

Fix this by moving unbind_from_irqhandler() to the beginning of
blkif_free_ring(). Calling unbind_from_irqhandler() first frees the
IRQ and synchronizes with any in-flight interrupt handlers on other CPUs
before ring memory and shadow request structures are deallocated,
matching the teardown order in drivers/net/xen-netfront.c.

Fixes: 907c3eb18e0b ("xen-blkfront: convert to blk-mq APIs")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Yuchao Zhang <ndaugoing@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
index 8dad7bf5f664..e70b78ca4df2 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
@@ -1210,6 +1210,10 @@ static void blkif_free_ring(struct blkfront_ring_info *rinfo)
struct blkfront_info *info = rinfo->dev_info;
int i, j, segs;

+ if (rinfo->irq)
+ unbind_from_irqhandler(rinfo->irq, rinfo);
+ rinfo->evtchn = rinfo->irq = 0;
+
/*
* Remove indirect pages, this only happens when using indirect
* descriptors but not persistent grants
@@ -1292,10 +1296,6 @@ static void blkif_free_ring(struct blkfront_ring_info *rinfo)
/* Free resources associated with old device channel. */
xenbus_teardown_ring((void **)&rinfo->ring.sring, info->nr_ring_pages,
rinfo->ring_ref);
-
- if (rinfo->irq)
- unbind_from_irqhandler(rinfo->irq, rinfo);
- rinfo->evtchn = rinfo->irq = 0;
}

static void blkif_free(struct blkfront_info *info, int suspend)
--
2.53.0