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rbd: fix null-ptr-deref when device_add_disk() fails

Published May 27, 2026 · Updated Nov 6, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: kernel Package: linux Package: linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.14 Package: linux-aws-6.17 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-aws-6.5 Package: linux-aws-6.8 Package: linux-aws-fips Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 Package: linux-azure-5.8 Package: linux-azure-6.11 Package: linux-azure-6.14 Package: linux-azure-6.17 Package: linux-azure-6.2 Package: linux-azure-6.5 Package: linux-azure-6.8 Package: linux-azure-edge Package: linux-azure-fde Package: linux-azure-fde-5.19 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.14 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.2 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.8 Package: linux-azure-fips Package: linux-azure-nvidia Package: linux-azure-nvidia-6.14 Package: linux-bluefield Package: linux-fips Package: linux-gcp Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.11 Package: linux-gcp-6.14 Package: linux-gcp-6.17 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gcp-6.5 Package: linux-gcp-6.8 Package: linux-gcp-fips Package: linux-gke Package: linux-gke-4.15 Package: linux-gke-5.15 Package: linux-gke-5.4 Package: linux-gkeop Package: linux-gkeop-5.15 Package: linux-gkeop-5.4 Package: linux-hwe Package: linux-hwe-5.11 Package: linux-hwe-5.13 Package: linux-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.11 Package: linux-hwe-6.14 Package: linux-hwe-6.17 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-hwe-6.8 Package: linux-hwe-7.0 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-ibm Package: linux-ibm-6.8 Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-intel-iot-realtime Package: linux-lowlatency Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 Package: linux-nvidia Package: linux-nvidia-6.11 Package: linux-nvidia-6.17 Package: linux-nvidia-6.2 Package: linux-nvidia-6.5 Package: linux-nvidia-6.8 Package: linux-nvidia-lowlatency Package: linux-nvidia-tegra Package: linux-oem Package: linux-oem-5.10 Package: linux-oem-5.13 Package: linux-oem-5.14 Package: linux-oem-5.17 Package: linux-oem-5.6 Package: linux-oem-6.0 Package: linux-oem-6.1 Package: linux-oem-6.11 Package: linux-oem-6.14 Package: linux-oem-6.17 Package: linux-oem-6.5 Package: linux-oem-6.8 Package: linux-oem-7.0 Package: linux-oracle Package: linux-oracle-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-oracle-6.14 Package: linux-oracle-6.17 Package: linux-oracle-6.5 Package: linux-oracle-6.8 Package: linux-raspi Package: linux-raspi-realtime Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-realtime Package: linux-realtime-6.14 Package: linux-realtime-6.17 Package: linux-realtime-6.8 Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 Package: linux-riscv-5.19 Package: linux-riscv-5.8 Package: linux-riscv-6.14 Package: linux-riscv-6.17 Package: linux-riscv-6.5 Package: linux-riscv-6.8 Package: linux-starfive-5.19 Package: linux-starfive-6.2 Package: linux-starfive-6.5 Package: linux-vmware Package: linux-xilinx Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Azure Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rbd: fix null-ptr-deref when device_add_disk() fails

do_rbd_add() publishes the device with device_add() before calling
device_add_disk(). If device_add_disk() fails after device_add()
succeeds, the error path calls rbd_free_disk() directly and then later
falls through to rbd_dev_device_release(), which calls rbd_free_disk()
again. This double teardown can leave blk-mq cleanup operating on
invalid state and trigger a null-ptr-deref in
__blk_mq_free_map_and_rqs(), reached from blk_mq_free_tag_set().

Fix this by following the normal remove ordering: call device_del()
before rbd_dev_device_release() when device_add_disk() fails after
device_add(). That keeps the teardown sequence consistent and avoids
re-entering disk cleanup through the wrong path.

The bug was first flagged by an experimental analysis tool we are
developing for kernel memory-management bugs while analyzing
v6.13-rc1. The tool is still under development and is not yet publicly
available.

We reproduced the bug on v7.0 with a real Ceph backend and a QEMU x86_64
guest booted with KASAN and CONFIG_FAILSLAB enabled. The reproducer
confines failslab injections to the __add_disk() range and injects
fail-nth while mapping an RBD image through
/sys/bus/rbd/add_single_major.

On the unpatched kernel, fail-nth=4 reliably triggered the fault:

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 273 Comm: bash Not tainted 7.0.0-01247-gd60bc1401583 #6 PREEMPT(lazy)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:__blk_mq_free_map_and_rqs+0x8c/0x240
Code: 00 00 48 8b 6b 60 41 89 f4 49 c1 e4 03 4c 01 e5 45 85 ed 0f 85 0a 01 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 e9 48 c1 e9 03 <80> 3c 01 00 0f 85 31 01 00 00 4c 8b 6d 00 4d 85 ed 0f 84 e2 00 00
RSP: 0018:ff1100000ab0fac8 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ff1100000c4806a0 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ff1100000c4806f4
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffe21c000189001b
R10: ff1100000c4800df R11: ff1100006cf37be0 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ff1100000c480700 R15: ff1100000c480004
FS: 00007f0fbe8fe740(0000) GS:ff110000e5851000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fe53473b2e0 CR3: 0000000012eef000 CR4: 00000000007516f0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
<TASK>
blk_mq_free_tag_set+0x77/0x460
do_rbd_add+0x1446/0x2b80
? __pfx_do_rbd_add+0x10/0x10
? lock_acquire+0x18c/0x300
? find_held_lock+0x2b/0x80
? sysfs_file_kobj+0xb6/0x1b0
? __pfx_sysfs_kf_write+0x10/0x10
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x2f4/0x4a0
vfs_write+0x98e/0x1000
? expand_files+0x51f/0x850
? __pfx_vfs_write+0x10/0x10
ksys_write+0xf2/0x1d0
? __pfx_ksys_write+0x10/0x10
do_syscall_64+0x115/0x690
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f0fbea15907
Code: 10 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b7 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 51 c3 48 83 ec 28 48 89 54 24 18 48 89 74 24
RSP: 002b:00007ffe22346ea8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000058 RCX: 00007f0fbea15907
RDX: 0000000000000058 RSI: 0000563ace6c0ef0 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 0000563ace6c0ef0 R08: 0000563ace6c0ef0 R09: 6b6435726d694141
R10: 5250337279762f78 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000058
R13: 00007f0fbeb1c780 R14: ff1100000c480700 R15: ff1100000c480004
</TASK>

With this fix applied, rerunning the reproducer over fail-nth=1..256
yields no KASAN reports.

[ idryomov: rename err_out_device_del -> err_out_device ]

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 5.16 6.1.175

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 7.0.4-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.12.86-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.1.176-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Nvidia-BlueField 24.04 LTS linux-bluefield 6.8.0-1028.33 —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux 7.0.0-27.27 USN-8488-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-aws +1 7.0.0-1008.8 USN-8489-1, USN-8488-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-azure 7.0.0-1010.10 USN-8603-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-gcp +1 7.0.0-1007.7 USN-8488-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-ibm +1 7.0.0-1009.9 USN-8603-1, USN-8488-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-nvidia 7.0.0-1013.13 USN-8507-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-raspi 7.0.0-1014.14 USN-8488-2
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-riscv +1 7.0.0-27.27.1 USN-8488-1
Ubuntu 25.10 linux +8 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux 6.8.0-136.136 USN-8567-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws 6.8.0-1061.64 USN-8595-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure 6.8.0-1063.71 USN-8606-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 6.8.0-1062.69 USN-8607-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp 6.8.0-1064.72 USN-8567-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gke 6.8.0-1059.67 USN-8567-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gkeop 6.8.0-1046.50 USN-8567-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-hwe-7.0 7.0.0-28.28~24.04.1 USN-8569-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-ibm 6.8.0-1061.62 USN-8574-3
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-lowlatency 6.8.0-136.136.2 USN-8574-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia 6.8.0-1059.62 USN-8596-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-lowlatency 6.8.0-1059.62.1 USN-8596-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra 6.8.0-1030.31 USN-8574-3
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oracle 6.8.0-1058.61 USN-8574-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi 6.8.0-1061.65 USN-8665-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +27 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-vmware 6.8.0-1008.8 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-xilinx 6.8.0-1033.34 USN-8574-3
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws-6.8 6.8.0-1061.64~22.04.1 USN-8595-3
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-6.8 6.8.0-1063.71~22.04.1 USN-8606-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fde-6.8 6.8.0-1062.69~22.04.1 USN-8609-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.8 6.8.0-1064.72~22.04.1 USN-8567-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-136.136~22.04.1 USN-8619-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm-6.8 6.8.0-1061.62~22.04.1 USN-8574-3
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-136.136.2~22.04.1 USN-8574-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-6.8 6.8.0-1059.62~22.04.1 USN-8596-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle-6.8 6.8.0-1058.61~22.04.1 USN-8595-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv-6.8 6.8.0-136.136~22.04.3 —
Show 6 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime 6.8.0-2050.52 USN-8665-1
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime 6.8.1-1056.57 USN-8567-1
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.14 +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.8 6.8.1-1056.57~22.04.2 USN-8567-1
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 6.8.0-1061.64+fips1 USN-8595-3
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 6.8.0-1063.71+fips2 USN-8608-1
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-fips 6.8.0-136.136+fips2 USN-8574-2
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 6.8.0-1064.72+fips1 USN-8574-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-64kb +6 6.4.0-150700.53.60.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2482-1
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150700.53.60.1.150700.17.35.4 SUSE-SU-2026:2482-1
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-obs-build 6.4.0-150700.53.60.2 SUSE-SU-2026:2482-1
Show 7 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 kernel-64kb +8 6.12.0-160000.36.1 SUSE-SU-2026:22835-1
SLES for SAP 16.0 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.36.1.160000.2.17 SUSE-SU-2026:22835-1
SLES 16.0 kernel-64kb +8 6.12.0-160000.36.1 SUSE-SU-2026:22835-1, SUSE-SU-2026:22812-1
SLES 16.0 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.36.1.160000.2.17 SUSE-SU-2026:22835-1
SLE Micro 6.2 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.36.1.160000.2.17 SUSE-SU-2026:22769-1
SLE Micro 6.2 kernel-rt +5 6.12.0-160000.36.1 SUSE-SU-2026:22769-1, SUSE-SU-2026:22742-1
SLE Micro 6.1 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-47.1.21.24 SUSE-SU-2026:22137-1
SLE Micro 6.1 kernel-rt +1 6.4.0-48.1 SUSE-SU-2026:22458-1
SLE Micro 6.1 kernel-source +2 6.4.0-47.1 SUSE-SU-2026:22137-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-47.1.21.24 SUSE-SU-2026:22108-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-rt +1 6.4.0-48.1 SUSE-SU-2026:22433-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-source +2 6.4.0-47.1 SUSE-SU-2026:22108-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-default 6.4.0-150700.53.60.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2482-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7-RT_Update_16 1-150700.1.5.2 SUSE-SU-2026:2591-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7_Update_16 1-150700.15.3.2 SUSE-SU-2026:2482-1
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP7 kernel-rt +1 6.4.0-150700.7.59.2 SUSE-SU-2026:2591-1
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP7 kernel-syms-rt 6.4.0-150700.7.59.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2591-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed kernel-source 7.0.11-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10954-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.36.1.160000.2.17 openSUSE-SU-2026:21388-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 kernel-rt +11 6.12.0-160000.36.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21388-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel-livepatch-6.18.30-61.116 +2 1:1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1882, ALAS2023-2026-1754, ALAS2023-2026-1753
Amazon Linux 2023 perf +11 1:6.1.175-219.357.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1882
Amazon Linux 2023 perf6.12 +11 1:6.12.88-119.157.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1753
Amazon Linux 2023 perf6.18 +11 1:6.18.30-61.116.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1754

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 kernel 6.6.141.1-1 —

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 9 kernel-uek +34 6.12.0-204.92.4.2.el10uek ELSA-2026-50372

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