[PATCH v6 0/3] md/raid10: fix r10bio width mismatches across reshape

From: Chen Cheng

Date: Tue Jun 23 2026 - 08:40:03 EST


From: Chen Cheng <chencheng@xxxxxxxxx>

Hi,

This series fixes slab out-of-bounds accesses in raid10 when reshape changes
the number of raid disks while regular I/O is still reusing r10bio objects
allocated under the previous geometry.

The bug is reproducible with a simple 4-disk to 5-disk reshape under write
load, for example:

mdadm -C /dev/md777 -l10 -n4 /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd
mkfs.ext4 /dev/md777
mount /dev/md777 /mnt/test
fsstress -d /mnt/test -n 24000 -p 8 -l 24 &
mdadm /dev/md777 --add /dev/sde
mdadm --grow /dev/md777 --raid-devices=5 \
--backup-file=/tmp/md-reshape-backup


KASAN report:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in free_r10bio+0x1c4/0x260 [raid10]
Read of size 8 at addr ffff00008c2dfac8 by task ksoftirqd/0/15
free_r10bio
raid_end_bio_io
one_write_done
raid10_end_write_request


This series addresses the problem in three steps:

1. ensure the sync_action=reshape caller suspends and locks before start_reshape

2. resize r10bio_pool when reshape grows raid_disks

3. reorder the r10bio free flow before bio_endio in the regular and discard
completion paths


Changes in v6:
- suspend the array in action_store() after flush_work()
- free r10bio before ending the discard master bio

Changes in v5 (suggested by Yu Kuai):
- simplify patch 2
- switch patch 3 from bounding reused r10bio devs[] walks by used_nr_devs
to reordering the free/endio flow

Changes in v4:
- make the sync_action=reshape path invoke mddev_suspend_and_lock() before
calling start_reshape()
- leave the md-cluster and dm-raid paths unchanged; they still reach
start_reshape() with the mddev locked but without suspend

Changes in v3:
- replace freeze_array()/unfreeze_array() in raid10_start_reshape() with
mddev_suspend_and_lock_nointr()/mddev_unlock_and_resume(); freeze_array()
can return while retry-list items still hold pool objects, while
mddev_suspend() provides the correct upper-layer quiesce interface

Changes in v2:
- add this cover letter
- convert r10bio_pool to a fixed-size kmalloc mempool
- rebuild r10bio_pool inside the freeze window before switching live reshape
geometry
- switch raid10_quiesce() to freeze_array()/unfreeze_array()


Testing:
- reproduced the original KASAN slab-out-of-bounds on 4-disk -> 5-disk
raid10 reshape with fsstress
- verified that this series fixes that reproducer
- exercised the 5-disk -> 4-disk reshape direction as well

Thanks,
Chen Cheng



Chen Cheng (3):
md: suspend array when sync_action=reshape
md/raid10: resize r10bio_pool for reshape
md/raid10: free r10bio before ending master_bio in raid_end_bio_io()
and raid_end_discard_bio()

drivers/md/md.c | 17 +++++++++----
drivers/md/raid10.c | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
drivers/md/raid10.h | 2 +-
3 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

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