[PATCH v2] lib/group_cpus: fix NULL pointer dereference from group_cpus_evenly()

From: Yu Kuai
Date: Thu Jun 19 2025 - 09:35:18 EST


From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx>

While testing null_blk with configfs, echo 0 > poll_queues will trigger
following panic:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
CPU: 27 UID: 0 PID: 920 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.15.0-02023-gadbdb95c8696-dirty #1238 PREEMPT(undef)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.1-2.fc37 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:__bitmap_or+0x48/0x70
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__group_cpus_evenly+0x822/0x8c0
group_cpus_evenly+0x2d9/0x490
blk_mq_map_queues+0x1e/0x110
null_map_queues+0xc9/0x170 [null_blk]
blk_mq_update_queue_map+0xdb/0x160
blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues+0x22b/0x560
nullb_update_nr_hw_queues+0x71/0xf0 [null_blk]
nullb_device_poll_queues_store+0xa4/0x130 [null_blk]
configfs_write_iter+0x109/0x1d0
vfs_write+0x26e/0x6f0
ksys_write+0x79/0x180
__x64_sys_write+0x1d/0x30
x64_sys_call+0x45c4/0x45f0
do_syscall_64+0xa5/0x240
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Root cause is that numgrps is set to 0, and ZERO_SIZE_PTR is returned
from kcalloc(), then __group_cpus_evenly() will deference the
ZERO_SIZE_PTR.

Fix the problem by checking numgrps first in group_cpus_evenly(), and
return NULL directly if numgrps is zero.

Fixes: 6a6dcae8f486 ("blk-mq: Build default queue map via group_cpus_evenly()")
Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
- check numgrps directly.

lib/group_cpus.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/group_cpus.c b/lib/group_cpus.c
index ee272c4cefcc..d68407e3601e 100644
--- a/lib/group_cpus.c
+++ b/lib/group_cpus.c
@@ -352,6 +352,9 @@ struct cpumask *group_cpus_evenly(unsigned int numgrps)
int ret = -ENOMEM;
struct cpumask *masks = NULL;

+ if (numgrps == 0)
+ return NULL;
+
if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&nmsk, GFP_KERNEL))
return NULL;

--
2.39.2