From: Zheng Qixing <zhengqixing@huawei.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 12:49:20 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: nbd: defer config unlock in nbd_genl_connect
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1649714b930f9ea6233ce0810ba885999da3b5d4;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git

nbd: defer config unlock in nbd_genl_connect

There is one use-after-free warning when running NBD_CMD_CONNECT and
NBD_CLEAR_SOCK:

nbd_genl_connect
  nbd_alloc_and_init_config // config_refs=1
  nbd_start_device // config_refs=2
  set NBD_RT_HAS_CONFIG_REF			open nbd // config_refs=3
  recv_work done // config_refs=2
						NBD_CLEAR_SOCK // config_refs=1
						close nbd // config_refs=0
  refcount_inc -> uaf

------------[ cut here ]------------
refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 24 PID: 1014 at lib/refcount.c:25 refcount_warn_saturate+0x12e/0x290
 nbd_genl_connect+0x16d0/0x1ab0
 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x1f3/0x310
 genl_rcv_msg+0x44a/0x790

The issue can be easily reproduced by adding a small delay before
refcount_inc(&nbd->config_refs) in nbd_genl_connect():

        mutex_unlock(&nbd->config_lock);
        if (!ret) {
                set_bit(NBD_RT_HAS_CONFIG_REF, &config->runtime_flags);
+               printk("before sleep\n");
+               mdelay(5 * 1000);
+               printk("after sleep\n");
                refcount_inc(&nbd->config_refs);
                nbd_connect_reply(info, nbd->index);
        }

Fixes: e46c7287b1c2 ("nbd: add a basic netlink interface")
Signed-off-by: Zheng Qixing <zhengqixing@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai@fnnas.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
---

diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
index 0df7b33af6777..bbbafb6e2b33c 100644
--- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
@@ -2235,12 +2235,13 @@ again:
 
 	ret = nbd_start_device(nbd);
 out:
-	mutex_unlock(&nbd->config_lock);
 	if (!ret) {
 		set_bit(NBD_RT_HAS_CONFIG_REF, &config->runtime_flags);
 		refcount_inc(&nbd->config_refs);
 		nbd_connect_reply(info, nbd->index);
 	}
+	mutex_unlock(&nbd->config_lock);
+
 	nbd_config_put(nbd);
 	if (put_dev)
 		nbd_put(nbd);