[PATCH v2 2/2] nvme: wait for SRCU readers before splicing the namespace list

From: Qiliang Yuan

Date: Wed Nov 04 2026 - 01:31:53 EST


Readers walk ctrl->namespaces under ctrl->srcu, and some of them sleep
there, e.g. nvme_wait_freeze() waiting for I/O to drain.

nvme_remove_namespaces() moves the list onto its on-stack ns_list with
list_splice_init_rcu(), which only waits for RCU readers before
relinking the entries. A reader still on the last namespace then follows
its next pointer to ns_list instead of ctrl->namespaces and treats the
stack as a namespace. Deleting a controller while a Format NVM
passthrough waits for a delayed read on the last namespace gives:

BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in nvme_wait_freeze+0x102/0x120
Read of size 8 at addr ff110001d2f3fc38 by task nvme/4413
Call Trace:
nvme_wait_freeze
nvme_passthru_start
nvme_submit_user_cmd
nvme_user_cmd
nvme_dev_ioctl
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffff8af04850

Use list_splice_init_srcu() instead, which waits for the SRCU readers.
This also takes the RCU grace period out of every controller deletion.
Deleting 64 tcp controllers with one namespace each, median of 3 runs on
each of two boots per kernel:

before after
nvme disconnect-all (ms) 3491 / 3509 2996 / 3165
nvme_remove_namespaces() avg (ms) 39.0 / 40.5 31.9 / 34.7

Fixes: be647e2c76b2 ("nvme: use srcu for iterating namespace list")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Qiliang Yuan <odys.yuan@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
index a7a4d09644c13..cdb576db23809 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
@@ -4755,9 +4755,8 @@ void nvme_remove_namespaces(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl)
nvme_change_ctrl_state(ctrl, NVME_CTRL_DELETING_NOIO);

mutex_lock(&ctrl->namespaces_lock);
- list_splice_init_rcu(&ctrl->namespaces, &ns_list, synchronize_rcu);
+ list_splice_init_srcu(&ctrl->namespaces, &ns_list, &ctrl->srcu);
mutex_unlock(&ctrl->namespaces_lock);
- synchronize_srcu(&ctrl->srcu);

list_for_each_entry_safe(ns, next, &ns_list, list)
nvme_ns_remove(ns);

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2.43.0