[PATCH] nvmet: accept ANA group ID NVMET_MAX_ANAGRPS in configfs
From: Andrew Stellman
Date: Thu Sep 10 2026 - 12:10:39 EST
nvmet_ns_ana_grpid_store() and nvmet_ana_groups_make_group() accept an
ANA group ID in the closed range 1..NVMET_MAX_ANAGRPS, but then pass it
through array_index_nospec() with NVMET_MAX_ANAGRPS as the size. That
helper treats the size as a half-open bound, so the maximum valid ID,
128, is rewritten to 0.
nvmet_ana_group_enabled[] is NVMET_MAX_ANAGRPS + 1 entries wide, so
index 128 is a valid slot, and the controller advertises ANAGRPMAX =
NVMET_MAX_ANAGRPS. NVMe Base Specification 2.4, section 8.1.1
(Asymmetric Namespace Access Reporting), "ANA Groups", defines a valid
ANA Group Identifier as "a non-zero value that is less than or equal to
ANAGRPMAX".
Two visible effects. Writing 128 to a namespace's ana_grpid succeeds
but the namespace lands in the reserved group 0, which Identify
Namespace then reports. Creating and removing ports/N/ana_groups/128
increments slot 0 on create but decrements slot 128 on release, leaving
nvmet_ana_group_enabled[128] at 0xffffffff, so every subsequent ANA log
page reports a group 128 with no namespaces in the Inaccessible state.
Use NVMET_MAX_ANAGRPS + 1 as the array_index_nospec() bound at both
sites, matching the array's actual size. A namespace assigned to group
128 now follows the same path as any other group: its ANA state is
Inaccessible until ports/N/ana_groups/128 is created and configured,
where before it sat in group 0 with an uninitialized state and I/O was
allowed.
Tested on 7.3.0-rc1-qpb-cc-base+ (unpatched) and 7.3.0-rc1-qpb-cc-anagrpid+
(patched) in an arm64 QEMU guest with nvmet over NVMe/TCP to
127.0.0.1. Before: ana_grpid written as 128 reads back 0, and the ANA
log after mkdir+rmdir of ana_groups/128 lists group 128 with nnsids 0,
state inaccessible. After: ana_grpid reads back 128 and the ANA log
lists only group 1.
The issue was found by Claude Opus 5 running Quality Playbook, an
LLM-driven code review tool:
https://github.com/andrewstellman/quality-playbook
Fixes: 20dc66f2d76b ("nvme: prevent potential spectre v1 gadget")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5 [Quality Playbook]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Stellman <astellman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/nvme/target/configfs.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/configfs.c b/drivers/nvme/target/configfs.c
index 413ee2d16d29..0d4c69c4697a 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/configfs.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/configfs.c
@@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ static ssize_t nvmet_ns_ana_grpid_store(struct config_item *item,
down_write(&nvmet_ana_sem);
oldgrpid = ns->anagrpid;
- newgrpid = array_index_nospec(newgrpid, NVMET_MAX_ANAGRPS);
+ newgrpid = array_index_nospec(newgrpid, NVMET_MAX_ANAGRPS + 1);
nvmet_ana_group_enabled[newgrpid]++;
ns->anagrpid = newgrpid;
nvmet_ana_group_enabled[oldgrpid]--;
@@ -1976,7 +1976,7 @@ static struct config_group *nvmet_ana_groups_make_group(
grp->grpid = grpid;
down_write(&nvmet_ana_sem);
- grpid = array_index_nospec(grpid, NVMET_MAX_ANAGRPS);
+ grpid = array_index_nospec(grpid, NVMET_MAX_ANAGRPS + 1);
nvmet_ana_group_enabled[grpid]++;
up_write(&nvmet_ana_sem);
base-commit: 4d7d9486c04d917265f64c55bd23b2cc4fe7749c
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2.53.0