Re: [PATCH v7 2/4] md: init bioset in mddev_init
From: Li Nan
Date: Tue Oct 28 2025 - 22:35:59 EST
在 2025/10/28 20:01, Yu Kuai 写道:
Hi,
在 2025/10/27 15:29, linan122@xxxxxxxxxx 写道:
From: Li Nan <linan122@xxxxxxxxxx>
IO operations may be needed before md_run(), such as updating metadata
after writing sysfs. Without bioset, this triggers a NULL pointer
dereference as below:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020
Call Trace:
md_update_sb+0x658/0xe00
new_level_store+0xc5/0x120
md_attr_store+0xc9/0x1e0
sysfs_kf_write+0x6f/0xa0
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x141/0x2a0
vfs_write+0x1fc/0x5a0
ksys_write+0x79/0x180
__x64_sys_write+0x1d/0x30
x64_sys_call+0x2818/0x2880
do_syscall_64+0xa9/0x580
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
Reproducer
```
mdadm -CR /dev/md0 -l1 -n2 /dev/sd[cd]
echo inactive > /sys/block/md0/md/array_state
echo 10 > /sys/block/md0/md/new_level
```
Fixes: d981ed841930 ("md: Add new_level sysfs interface")
Signed-off-by: Li Nan <linan122@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/md.c | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index f6fd55a1637b..51f0201e4906 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -730,6 +730,8 @@ static void mddev_clear_bitmap_ops(struct mddev *mddev)
int mddev_init(struct mddev *mddev)
{
+ int err = 0;
+
if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MD_BITMAP))
mddev->bitmap_id = ID_BITMAP_NONE;
else
@@ -741,8 +743,26 @@ int mddev_init(struct mddev *mddev)
if (percpu_ref_init(&mddev->writes_pending, no_op,
PERCPU_REF_ALLOW_REINIT, GFP_KERNEL)) {
- percpu_ref_exit(&mddev->active_io);
- return -ENOMEM;
+ err = -ENOMEM;
+ goto exit_acitve_io;
+ }
+
+ if (!bioset_initialized(&mddev->bio_set)) {
+ err = bioset_init(&mddev->bio_set, BIO_POOL_SIZE, 0, BIOSET_NEED_BVECS);
mddev_init() can only be called once for one mddev, no need to test if bioset
is initialized here.
I will fix it in next version. Thanks for your review.
+ if (err)
+ goto exit_writes_pending;
+ }
+ if (!bioset_initialized(&mddev->sync_set)) {
same here.
--
Thanks,
Nan