Re: [PATCH v2] blk-mq: take quiesce_lock when removing a queue from the tag set
From: Nilay Shroff
Date: Mon Nov 09 2026 - 06:06:26 EST
On 11/6/26 10:23 PM, Mani Tofigh via B4 Relay wrote:
From: Mani Tofigh<mt4022@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Unquiescing a tag set can run the hw queues of a queue whose hctxs were
already freed. blk_mq_unquiesce_tagset() walks the tag set's queues
under quiesce_lock and rcu_read_lock(). Commit 71ec3c7d6db8 ("blk-mq:
quiesce a queue that joins a quiesced tag set") added quiesce_lock to
the walks and to adding a queue, but blk_mq_del_queue_tag_set() still
removes a queue without it. The hctxs are then freed right away since
RCU only keeps the request_queue itself alive:
Task A (controller reset) Task B (namespace removal)
blk_mq_unquiesce_tagset()
/* finds q */
blk_mq_del_queue_tag_set(q)
blk_mq_release(q)
/* frees the hctxs */
blk_mq_run_hw_queues(q)
/* reads freed hctxs */
The window is short. On PREEMPT_RT quiesce_lock is a sleeping lock and
the walk can be preempted inside it, which is how it's hit here:
[ 399.851277] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in blk_mq_run_hw_queues+0x4bd/0x550
[ 399.851328] Read of size 8 at addr ff11000003014148 by task kworker/u9:2/116
[ 399.851352] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 116 Comm: kworker/u9:2 Not tainted 7.3.0-16299-g81cb9aa43246 #1 PREEMPT_RT
[ 399.851425] Workqueue: nvme-reset-wq nvme_loop_reset_ctrl_work
[ 399.851441] Call Trace:
[ 399.851457] <TASK>
[ 399.851551] blk_mq_run_hw_queues+0x4bd/0x550
[ 399.851564] blk_mq_unquiesce_tagset+0x128/0x210
[ 399.851576] nvme_loop_reset_ctrl_work+0x78/0x4c0
[ 399.851600] process_one_work+0x92b/0x16d0
[ 399.851660] worker_thread+0x4e6/0xd60
[ 399.851707] kthread+0x300/0x3e0
[ 399.851727] ret_from_fork+0x4f0/0x6f0
[ 399.851776] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[ 399.851793] </TASK>
...
[ 399.851988] Freed by task 111:
[ 399.852040] kfree+0x1b3/0x4b0
[ 399.852050] blk_mq_release+0x400/0x550
[ 399.852060] blk_put_queue+0x94/0x120
[ 399.852068] disk_release+0x1bd/0x3f0
[ 399.852102] nvme_free_ns+0x39/0x270
[ 399.852113] nvme_remove_nsid_range+0x2d1/0x4a0
[ 399.852123] nvme_scan_ns_list+0x2cc/0x390
[ 399.852134] nvme_scan_work+0x421/0x9f0
...
With BLK_CGROUP the disk's root blkg holds the queue until a grace
period later, which hides this for NVMe namespaces. It's still open
without BLK_CGROUP, and from reading the code also for queues freed
without a disk (e.g., SCSI device queues on a UFS host).
Take quiesce_lock around the list_del_rcu() as well so that the walk
either finishes with a queue before it leaves the list or never sees
it, and say so in the comment of quiesce_lock. With the fix, KASAN
doesn't report the use-after-free anymore.
This bug was identified and confirmed with the help of a deterministic
hypervisor currently under development. The C reproducer below however
hits it about once every 20 minutes on a PREEMPT_RT kernel.
Fixes: 59e25ef2b413 ("block: Use RCU in blk_mq_[un]quiesce_tagset() instead of set->tag_list_lock")
Cc:stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Mohamed Khalfella<mkhalfella@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mani Tofigh<mt4022@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Looks good to me:
Reviewed-by: Nilay Shroff <nilay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>