md: fix create on open mddev lifetime regression
Commit
9e59d609763f ("md: call del_gendisk in control path") moves
setting MD_DELETED from __mddev_put() to do_md_stop(), however, for the
case create on open, mddev can be freed without do_md_stop():
1) open
md_probe
md_alloc_and_put
md_alloc
mddev_alloc
atomic_set(&mddev->active, 1);
mddev->hold_active = UNTIL_IOCTL
mddev_put
atomic_dec_and_test(&mddev->active)
if (mddev->hold_active)
-> active is 0, hold_active is set
md_open
mddev_get
atomic_inc(&mddev->active);
2) ioctl that is not STOP_ARRAY, for example, GET_ARRAY_INFO:
md_ioctl
mddev->hold_active = 0
3) close
md_release
mddev_put(mddev);
atomic_dec_and_lock(&mddev->active, &all_mddevs_lock)
__mddev_put
-> hold_active is cleared, mddev will be freed
queue_work(md_misc_wq, &mddev->del_work)
Now that MD_DELETED is not set, before mddev is freed by
mddev_delayed_delete(), md_open can still succeed and break mddev
lifetime, causing mddev->kobj refcount underflow or mddev uaf
problem.
Fix this problem by setting MD_DELETED before queuing del_work.
Reported-by: syzbot+9921e319bd6168140b40@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68894408.a00a0220.26d0e1.0012.GAE@google.com/
Reported-by: syzbot+fa3a12519f0d3fd4ec16@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68894408.a00a0220.26d0e1.0013.GAE@google.com/
Fixes: 9e59d609763f ("md: call del_gendisk in control path")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-raid/20250730073321.2583158-1-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Reviewed-by: Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com>