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md/raid5: fix possible null-pointer dereferences in raid5_store_group_thread_cnt()
authorTuo Li <islituo@gmail.com>
Thu, 25 Dec 2025 13:03:26 +0000 (21:03 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 8 Jan 2026 09:14:37 +0000 (10:14 +0100)
commit20597b7229aea8b5bc45cd92097640257c7fc33b
treee3a88e45509d11f59befdd74287b226f8c0dbcda
parentd9118a67547f2d02a83112da01ff0de53d88dd69
md/raid5: fix possible null-pointer dereferences in raid5_store_group_thread_cnt()

[ Upstream commit 7ad6ef91d8745d04aff9cce7bdbc6320d8e05fe9 ]

The variable mddev->private is first assigned to conf and then checked:

  conf = mddev->private;
  if (!conf) ...

If conf is NULL, then mddev->private is also NULL. In this case,
null-pointer dereferences can occur when calling raid5_quiesce():

  raid5_quiesce(mddev, true);
  raid5_quiesce(mddev, false);

since mddev->private is assigned to conf again in raid5_quiesce(), and conf
is dereferenced in several places, for example:

  conf->quiesce = 0;
  wake_up(&conf->wait_for_quiescent);

To fix this issue, the function should unlock mddev and return before
invoking raid5_quiesce() when conf is NULL, following the existing pattern
in raid5_change_consistency_policy().

Fixes: fa1944bbe622 ("md/raid5: Wait sync io to finish before changing group cnt")
Signed-off-by: Tuo Li <islituo@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-raid/20251225130326.67780-1-islituo@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai@fnnas.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/md/raid5.c