[PATCH] xfs: serialize zoned sysfs reads against unmount

From: Cen Zhang

Date: Thu Jul 02 2026 - 11:03:46 EST


The zoned sysfs kobject is removed late in xfs_unmountfs(), after
xfs_unmount_zones() has torn down the zone allocator. A read of
nr_open_zones can therefore enter through the still-live sysfs kobject
and dereference mp->m_zone_info after xfs_free_zone_info() has freed it.

Serialize the nr_open_zones show method against unmount with s_umount.
If unmount already owns the write side, fail the sysfs read before
touching m_zone_info. If the sysfs read gets in first, the unmount path
must wait until the read has copied zi_nr_open_zones. Also return
-ENODEV if the zoned sysfs node is visible before zone information is
available.

Validation reproduced this kernel report:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in nr_open_zones_show+0x86/0x90
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88810b177800 which belongs
to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
The buggy address is located 160 bytes inside of freed 1024-byte region
[ffff88810b177800, ffff88810b177c00)
Read of size 4
Call trace:
print_report+0xcd/0x620
nr_open_zones_show+0x86/0x90 (fs/xfs/xfs_sysfs.c:724)
srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
__virt_addr_valid+0x20c/0x410
kasan_report+0xdd/0x110
sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x1bd/0x380
seq_read_iter+0x40f/0x11b0
lock_release+0xba/0x260
mark_held_locks+0x40/0x70
vfs_read+0x717/0xce0
__up_read+0x319/0x900
ksys_read+0xf8/0x1c0
do_user_addr_fault+0x3d0/0xbc0
trace_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x23/0xf0
do_syscall_64+0xc8/0x530 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:87)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x74/0x7c
Allocated by task stack:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
__kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x205/0x460
xfs_mount_zones+0x34c/0x2650
xfs_mountfs+0x1b97/0x1eb0
xfs_fs_fill_super+0xf2b/0x18a0
get_tree_bdev_flags+0x310/0x590
vfs_get_tree+0x8d/0x2e0
__x64_sys_fsconfig+0x61c/0xbc0
do_syscall_64+0xc8/0x530 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:87)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x74/0x7c
Freed by task stack:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60
__kasan_slab_free+0x5f/0x80
kfree+0x20e/0x4c0
xfs_unmountfs+0x2fd/0x390
xfs_fs_put_super+0x60/0x110
generic_shutdown_super+0x143/0x4b0
kill_block_super+0x3b/0x90
xfs_kill_sb+0x12/0x50
deactivate_locked_super+0xa7/0x160
cleanup_mnt+0x218/0x420
task_work_run+0x11a/0x1f0
exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x13c/0x4f0
do_syscall_64+0x4a9/0x530 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:87)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x74/0x7c

Fixes: 62c89988dc19 ("xfs: expose the number of open zones in sysfs")
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.5
Signed-off-by: Cen Zhang <zzzccc427@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/xfs/xfs_sysfs.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_sysfs.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_sysfs.c
index 676777064c2d..1fe0014c8567 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_sysfs.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_sysfs.c
@@ -725,9 +725,21 @@ nr_open_zones_show(
struct kobject *kobj,
char *buf)
{
- struct xfs_zone_info *zi = zoned_to_mp(kobj)->m_zone_info;
+ struct xfs_mount *mp = zoned_to_mp(kobj);
+ struct xfs_zone_info *zi;
+ ssize_t ret;
+
+ if (!down_read_trylock(&mp->m_super->s_umount))
+ return -ENODEV;
+
+ zi = mp->m_zone_info;
+ if (zi)
+ ret = sysfs_emit(buf, "%u\n", READ_ONCE(zi->zi_nr_open_zones));
+ else
+ ret = -ENODEV;
+ up_read(&mp->m_super->s_umount);

- return sysfs_emit(buf, "%u\n", READ_ONCE(zi->zi_nr_open_zones));
+ return ret;
}
XFS_SYSFS_ATTR_RO(nr_open_zones);

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