block/rnbd-srv: don't free the device on a sysfs error

rnbd_srv_create_dev_sysfs() drops the only kobject reference on its
error paths, and the release function frees the rnbd_srv_dev.
process_msg_open() keeps using it and ends in destroy_device() with a
list_del() and a second kfree(). This doesn't need memory pressure: a
client opening a device while its last mapping goes away gets -EEXIST
from kobject_add() against the old directory.

Only undo kobject_add() on failure and leave the reference to
destroy_device(). Initialise the kobject once, the next open retries.

Fixes: 8cee532f46 ("block/rnbd: server: sysfs interface functions")
Fixes: d3a95ccaaf ("block/rnbd: call kobject_put in the failure path")
Cc: "Md. Haris Iqbal" <haris.iqbal@ionos.com>
Cc: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@ionos.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261028164415.1262013-17-axboe@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This commit is contained in:
Josef Bacik 2026-10-28 10:41:19 -06:00 committed by Jens Axboe
parent bf7fff620c
commit d9667ade40
2 changed files with 13 additions and 6 deletions

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@ -44,12 +44,17 @@ int rnbd_srv_create_dev_sysfs(struct rnbd_srv_dev *dev,
struct kobject *bdev_kobj;
int ret;
ret = kobject_init_and_add(&dev->dev_kobj, &dev_ktype,
rnbd_devs_kobj, "%pg", bdev);
if (ret) {
kobject_put(&dev->dev_kobj);
/*
* The release function frees the device, which the caller goes on
* using and which others may share: never drop the reference of the
* kobject here. That is for destroy_device().
*/
if (!dev->dev_kobj.state_initialized)
kobject_init(&dev->dev_kobj, &dev_ktype);
ret = kobject_add(&dev->dev_kobj, rnbd_devs_kobj, "%pg", bdev);
if (ret)
return ret;
}
dev->dev_sessions_kobj = kobject_create_and_add("sessions",
&dev->dev_kobj);
@ -69,7 +74,6 @@ int rnbd_srv_create_dev_sysfs(struct rnbd_srv_dev *dev,
kobject_put(dev->dev_sessions_kobj);
free_dev_kobj:
kobject_del(&dev->dev_kobj);
kobject_put(&dev->dev_kobj);
return ret;
}

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@ -208,6 +208,9 @@ static void destroy_device(struct kref *kref)
* Destroy kobj only if it was really created.
*/
rnbd_srv_destroy_dev_sysfs(dev);
else if (dev->dev_kobj.state_initialized)
/* The files could not be created. Frees the name, too. */
kobject_put(&dev->dev_kobj);
else
kfree(dev);
}