linux/drivers/block
Ming Lei 72e28774e9 ublk: fix use-after-free in ublk_partition_scan_work
[ Upstream commit f0d385f668 ]

A race condition exists between the async partition scan work and device
teardown that can lead to a use-after-free of ub->ub_disk:

1. ublk_ctrl_start_dev() schedules partition_scan_work after add_disk()
2. ublk_stop_dev() calls ublk_stop_dev_unlocked() which does:
   - del_gendisk(ub->ub_disk)
   - ublk_detach_disk() sets ub->ub_disk = NULL
   - put_disk() which may free the disk
3. The worker ublk_partition_scan_work() then dereferences ub->ub_disk
   leading to UAF

Fix this by using ublk_get_disk()/ublk_put_disk() in the worker to hold
a reference to the disk during the partition scan. The spinlock in
ublk_get_disk() synchronizes with ublk_detach_disk() ensuring the worker
either gets a valid reference or sees NULL and exits early.

Also change flush_work() to cancel_work_sync() to avoid running the
partition scan work unnecessarily when the disk is already detached.

Fixes: 7fc4da6a30 ("ublk: scan partition in async way")
Reported-by: Ruikai Peng <ruikai@pwno.io>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2026-01-17 16:35:30 +01:00
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aoe Summary of significant series in this pull request: 2025-10-02 18:18:33 -07:00
drbd drbd: init queue_limits->max_hw_wzeroes_unmap_sectors parameter 2025-09-17 08:20:49 -06:00
mtip32xx block: switch ->getgeo() to struct gendisk 2025-08-13 02:59:29 -04:00
null_blk null_blk: set dma alignment to logical block size 2025-10-31 09:03:12 -06:00
rnbd block: rnbd-clt: Fix signedness bug in init_dev() 2026-01-02 12:57:04 +01:00
rnull rnull: add soft-irq completion support 2025-09-02 05:23:56 -06:00
xen-blkback xen/blkback: convert timeouts to secs_to_jiffies() 2025-01-12 20:21:03 -08:00
zram Summary of significant series in this pull request: 2025-10-02 18:18:33 -07:00
amiflop.c block: switch ->getgeo() to struct gendisk 2025-08-13 02:59:29 -04:00
ataflop.c treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]() 2025-04-05 10:30:12 +02:00
brd.c brd: use page reference to protect page lifetime 2025-09-01 08:37:29 -06:00
floppy.c floppy: fix for PAGE_SIZE != 4KB 2026-01-02 12:57:08 +01:00
Kconfig rnull: move driver to separate directory 2025-09-02 05:23:56 -06:00
loop.c loop: remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN flag 2025-10-08 06:27:53 -06:00
Makefile rnull: move driver to separate directory 2025-09-02 05:23:56 -06:00
n64cart.c block: move the nonrot flag to queue_limits 2024-06-19 07:58:28 -06:00
nbd.c nbd: defer config unlock in nbd_genl_connect 2025-12-18 14:02:56 +01:00
ps3disk.c ps3disk: use memcpy_{from,to}_bvec index 2025-12-18 14:03:00 +01:00
ps3vram.c block: pass a queue_limits argument to blk_alloc_disk 2024-02-19 16:58:23 -07:00
rbd.c drivers/block: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users 2025-09-09 09:11:31 -06:00
rbd_types.h libceph, rbd: replace zero-length array with flexible-array 2020-06-01 13:22:53 +02:00
sunvdc.c drivers/block: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users 2025-09-09 09:11:31 -06:00
swim.c block: switch ->getgeo() to struct gendisk 2025-08-13 02:59:29 -04:00
swim3.c treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of() 2025-06-08 09:07:37 +02:00
swim_asm.S treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152 2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
ublk_drv.c ublk: fix use-after-free in ublk_partition_scan_work 2026-01-17 16:35:30 +01:00
virtio_blk.c drivers/block: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users 2025-09-09 09:11:31 -06:00
xen-blkfront.c block: switch ->getgeo() to struct gendisk 2025-08-13 02:59:29 -04:00
z2ram.c block: remove BLK_MQ_F_SHOULD_MERGE 2024-12-23 08:17:23 -07:00
zloop.c zloop: make the write pointer of full zones invalid 2026-01-02 12:57:28 +01:00