From 41742e35268d6a45161b187f51f42bc2ade14d0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cao Guanghui Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:03:41 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] md/raid5: fix NULL pointer dereference in raid5_free_percpu If cpuhp_state_add_instance() fails in raid5_alloc_percpu() (e.g., the startup callback raid456_cpu_up_prepare fails due to an allocation failure), conf->node is never added to the cpuhp instance list and its pprev remains NULL (from kzalloc initialization). When setup_conf() then jumps to abort, free_conf() calls raid5_free_percpu(), which checks conf->percpu (non-NULL, since it was allocated before the cpuhp failure) and proceeds to call cpuhp_state_remove_instance(). This calls hlist_del() on the unhashed node, which dereferences node->pprev (NULL), causing a kernel panic. Guard the removal with hlist_unhashed_lockless() so that the cpuhp instance is only removed if it was actually added. The lockless variant uses READ_ONCE() for the pprev read, which is safe here because the actual removal is synchronized by cpuhp_state_mutex inside cpuhp_state_remove_instance(). Fixes: 29c6d1bbd7a2 ("md/raid5: Convert to hotplug state machine") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Cao Guanghui Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260827080341.112296-2-ghuicao@163.com Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai --- drivers/md/raid5.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c index e5838bf516e3..bc5f4b048eed 100644 --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c @@ -7539,7 +7539,8 @@ static void raid5_free_percpu(struct r5conf *conf) if (!conf->percpu) return; - cpuhp_state_remove_instance(CPUHP_MD_RAID5_PREPARE, &conf->node); + if (!hlist_unhashed_lockless(&conf->node)) + cpuhp_state_remove_instance(CPUHP_MD_RAID5_PREPARE, &conf->node); free_percpu(conf->percpu); }