From 00c9c9628b49e368d140cfa61d7df9b8922ec2a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sarah Newman Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 11:57:28 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] drbd: add missing kref_get in handle_write_conflicts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit With `two-primaries` enabled, DRBD tries to detect "concurrent" writes and handle write conflicts, so that even if you write to the same sector simultaneously on both nodes, they end up with the identical data once the writes are completed. In handling "superseeded" writes, we forgot a kref_get, resulting in a premature drbd_destroy_device and use after free, and further to kernel crashes with symptoms. Relevance: No one should use DRBD as a random data generator, and apparently all users of "two-primaries" handle concurrent writes correctly on layer up. That is cluster file systems use some distributed lock manager, and live migration in virtualization environments stops writes on one node before starting writes on the other node. Which means that other than for "test cases", this code path is never taken in real life. FYI, in DRBD 9, things are handled differently nowadays. We still detect "write conflicts", but no longer try to be smart about them. We decided to disconnect hard instead: upper layers must not submit concurrent writes. If they do, that's their fault. Signed-off-by: Sarah Newman Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg Signed-off-by: Christoph Böhmwalder Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250627095728.800688-1-christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c index e5a2e5f7887b8..975024cf03c59 100644 --- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c +++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c @@ -2500,7 +2500,11 @@ static int handle_write_conflicts(struct drbd_device *device, peer_req->w.cb = superseded ? e_send_superseded : e_send_retry_write; list_add_tail(&peer_req->w.list, &device->done_ee); - queue_work(connection->ack_sender, &peer_req->peer_device->send_acks_work); + /* put is in drbd_send_acks_wf() */ + kref_get(&device->kref); + if (!queue_work(connection->ack_sender, + &peer_req->peer_device->send_acks_work)) + kref_put(&device->kref, drbd_destroy_device); err = -ENOENT; goto out; -- 2.47.2