[PATCH v2] nvme-rdma: fix NULL queue->ctrl dereference on reconnect

From: Christian Aurich Zanettini Martins

Date: Thu Oct 29 2026 - 10:31:33 EST


Since commit 2a8513091d2f ("nvme-rdma: parallelize I/O queue allocation
and startup"), a reconnect that gets more I/O queues than before grows
the tag set before the new queues are set up. queue->ctrl is only set
by nvme_rdma_setup_io_queues(), so I/O submitted in between reaches
nvme_rdma_queue_rq() on a queue that was never allocated and
dereferences a NULL queue->ctrl:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000034c
RIP: 0010:nvme_rdma_queue_rq+0x52/0xb90

Set queue->ctrl for every queue when allocating the controller. Such
requests are then requeued like on any other queue that is not live.

Fixes: 2a8513091d2f ("nvme-rdma: parallelize I/O queue allocation and startup")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Christian Aurich Zanettini Martins <christian.aurichzm@xxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
- Only move queue->ctrl. v1 also moved queue_lock, which needs the
queue count in nvme_rdma_free_ctrl(), but opts can already be freed
there when creating the controller fails (KASAN use-after-free on a
failed connect with CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE).
- Not carrying the Reviewed-by tags from Nilay and Christoph, as most
of the patch changed

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nvme/20261029060521.1690223-1-christian.aurichzm@xxxxxxxxx/

Based on nvme-7.4 (89480d137bf0), also applies to mainline and v7.3.

Reproduced in QEMU with nvmet-rdma over rxe and
CONFIG_NVME_MULTIPATH=n: connect with attr_qid_max=2, keep direct reads
running on the CPUs that map to the new hw queues, then raise
attr_qid_max to 4. The window is short, so the readers run at
SCHED_FIFO with nvme-wq pinned to their CPUs. Without the patch the
host oopses within two tries in all six boots. With v2, 24 of 24 tries
go live and 30 resets under I/O pass, with and without lockdep, and
failed connects are clean under KASAN.

drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c b/drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c
index 07216890f75c..32189fdfc0f5 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c
@@ -735,7 +735,6 @@ static int nvme_rdma_setup_io_queues(struct nvme_rdma_ctrl *ctrl,
for (i = 0; i < nr_queues; i++) {
struct nvme_rdma_queue *queue = &ctrl->queues[first + i];

- queue->ctrl = ctrl;
queue->queue_size = queue_size;

ctxs[i].queue = queue;
@@ -798,7 +797,6 @@ static int nvme_rdma_configure_admin_queue(struct nvme_rdma_ctrl *ctrl,
bool pi_capable = false;
int error;

- ctrl->queues[0].ctrl = ctrl;
ctrl->queues[0].queue_size = NVME_AQ_DEPTH;
error = nvme_rdma_alloc_queue(&ctrl->queues[0]);
if (error)
@@ -2284,7 +2282,7 @@ static struct nvme_rdma_ctrl *nvme_rdma_alloc_ctrl(struct device *dev,
struct nvmf_ctrl_options *opts)
{
struct nvme_rdma_ctrl *ctrl;
- int ret;
+ int ret, i;

ctrl = kzalloc_obj(*ctrl);
if (!ctrl)
@@ -2343,6 +2341,9 @@ static struct nvme_rdma_ctrl *nvme_rdma_alloc_ctrl(struct device *dev,
if (!ctrl->queues)
goto out_free_ctrl;

+ for (i = 0; i < ctrl->ctrl.queue_count; i++)
+ ctrl->queues[i].ctrl = ctrl;
+
ret = nvme_init_ctrl(&ctrl->ctrl, dev, &nvme_rdma_ctrl_ops,
0 /* no quirks, we're perfect! */);
if (ret)

base-commit: 89480d137bf0d943a82c64f86ae2407a15276b5e
--
2.43.0