[PATCH v1] block/mq-deadline: hold elevator_lock in debugfs next_rq show
From: Xixin Liu
Date: Tue Jul 21 2026 - 23:19:44 EST
deadline_*_next_rq_show() dereferences q->elevator->elevator_data without
holding elevator_lock. Concurrent elevator switch to "none" clears
q->elevator under that lock and tears down the scheduler, so readers
crash with a null-ptr-deref.
Hold elevator_lock around the show path and bail out if the elevator has
already been removed, matching other blk-mq debugfs readers that look at
elevator state.
Reproduced on linux-next with KASAN by reading write1_next_rq via debugfs
while switching the elevator from mq-deadline to none under fio load:
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in deadline_write1_next_rq_show+0x3c/0xf0
Read of size 8 at addr 0000000000000010 by task cat/140857
Call trace:
deadline_write1_next_rq_show+0x3c/0xf0
blk_mq_debugfs_show+0x58/0x78
seq_read_iter+0x254/0x6f8
seq_read+0x1a0/0x220
vfs_read+0x14c/0x528
Signed-off-by: Xixin Liu <liuxixin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
block/mq-deadline.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/mq-deadline.c b/block/mq-deadline.c
index 824bfc17b2c6..e7c4a91b2d08 100644
--- a/block/mq-deadline.c
+++ b/block/mq-deadline.c
@@ -842,14 +842,22 @@ static int deadline_##name##_next_rq_show(void *data, \
struct seq_file *m) \
{ \
struct request_queue *q = data; \
- struct deadline_data *dd = q->elevator->elevator_data; \
- struct dd_per_prio *per_prio = &dd->per_prio[prio]; \
+ struct elevator_queue *e; \
+ struct deadline_data *dd; \
+ struct dd_per_prio *per_prio; \
struct request *rq; \
+ int ret; \
\
+ ret = mutex_lock_interruptible(&q->elevator_lock); \
+ if (ret) \
+ return ret; \
+ e = q->elevator; \
+ if (!e) \
+ goto unlock; \
+ dd = e->elevator_data; \
+ per_prio = &dd->per_prio[prio]; \
rq = deadline_from_pos(per_prio, data_dir, \
per_prio->latest_pos[data_dir]); \
if (rq) \
__blk_mq_debugfs_rq_show(m, rq); \
+unlock: \
+ mutex_unlock(&q->elevator_lock); \
return 0; \
}
--
2.43.0