[PATCH 6.1/6.6/6.12] dlm: prevent NPD when writing a positive value to event_done

From: Nazar Kalashnikov

Date: Tue Jun 16 2026 - 11:06:23 EST


From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 8e2bad543eca5c25cd02cbc63d72557934d45f13 upstream.

do_uevent returns the value written to event_done. In case it is a
positive value, new_lockspace would undo all the work, and lockspace
would not be set. __dlm_new_lockspace, however, would treat that
positive value as a success due to commit 8511a2728ab8 ("dlm: fix use
count with multiple joins").

Down the line, device_create_lockspace would pass that NULL lockspace to
dlm_find_lockspace_local, leading to a NULL pointer dereference.

Treating such positive values as successes prevents the problem. Given
this has been broken for so long, this is unlikely to break userspace
expectations.

Fixes: 8511a2728ab8 ("dlm: fix use count with multiple joins")
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nazar Kalashnikov <nazarkalashnikov0@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Backport fix for CVE-2025-23131
fs/dlm/lockspace.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/dlm/lockspace.c b/fs/dlm/lockspace.c
index 7b4b6977dcd6..ee11a70def92 100644
--- a/fs/dlm/lockspace.c
+++ b/fs/dlm/lockspace.c
@@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ static int new_lockspace(const char *name, const char *cluster,
lockspace to start running (via sysfs) in dlm_ls_start(). */

error = do_uevent(ls, 1);
- if (error)
+ if (error < 0)
goto out_recoverd;

/* wait until recovery is successful or failed */
--
2.47.3