[PATCH 6.1.y 1/2] blk-mq: fix tags leak when shrink nr_hw_queues

From: Artem Dinaburg

Date: Mon Sep 21 2026 - 16:13:45 EST


From: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit e1dd7bc93029024af5688253b0c05181d6e01f8e ]

Although we don't need to realloc set->tags[] when shrink nr_hw_queues,
we need to free them. Or these tags will be leaked.

How to reproduce:
1. mount -t configfs configfs /mnt
2. modprobe null_blk nr_devices=0 submit_queues=8
3. mkdir /mnt/nullb/nullb0
4. echo 1 > /mnt/nullb/nullb0/power
5. echo 4 > /mnt/nullb/nullb0/submit_queues
6. rmdir /mnt/nullb/nullb0

In step 4, will alloc 9 tags (8 submit queues and 1 poll queue), then
in step 5, new_nr_hw_queues = 5 (4 submit queues and 1 poll queue).
At last in step 6, only these 5 tags are freed, the other 4 tags leaked.

Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230821095602.70742-1-chengming.zhou@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Backport to 6.1.y: use this tree's cur_nr_hw_queues snapshot when
freeing excess tag sets. ]
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Artem Dinaburg <artem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Stable submission note: patch 1/2 in the CVE-2023-54227 series for Linux
6.1.y.

CVE: CVE-2023-54227

Build: This patch was included in the x86_64 allmodconfig and
CONFIG_WERROR=y build. It produced no new warnings or errors.

block/blk-mq.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index 8a9d9e3db1668a..b6215bee3d3c45 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -4509,9 +4509,13 @@ static int blk_mq_realloc_tag_set_tags(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set,
int cur_nr_hw_queues, int new_nr_hw_queues)
{
struct blk_mq_tags **new_tags;
+ int i;

- if (cur_nr_hw_queues >= new_nr_hw_queues)
+ if (cur_nr_hw_queues >= new_nr_hw_queues) {
+ for (i = new_nr_hw_queues; i < cur_nr_hw_queues; i++)
+ __blk_mq_free_map_and_rqs(set, i);
return 0;
+ }

new_tags = kcalloc_node(new_nr_hw_queues, sizeof(struct blk_mq_tags *),
GFP_KERNEL, set->numa_node);
--
2.39.5