Commit fb8a6c18 authored Jan 09, 2026 by Michael Liang Committed by Mikulas Patocka Jan 14, 2026

dm: clear cloned request bio pointer when last clone bio completes



Stale rq->bio values have been observed to cause double-initialization of
cloned bios in request-based device-mapper targets, leading to
use-after-free and double-free scenarios.

One such case occurs when using dm-multipath on top of a PCIe NVMe
namespace, where cloned request bios are freed during
blk_complete_request(), but rq->bio is left intact. Subsequent clone
teardown then attempts to free the same bios again via
blk_rq_unprep_clone().

The resulting double-free path looks like:

  nvme_pci_complete_batch()
    nvme_complete_batch()
      blk_mq_end_request_batch()
        blk_complete_request()        // called on a DM clone request
          bio_endio()                 // first free of all clone bios
          ...
        rq->end_io()                  // end_clone_request()
          dm_complete_request(tio->orig)
            dm_softirq_done()
              dm_done()
                dm_end_request()
                  blk_rq_unprep_clone()  // second free of clone bios

Fix this by clearing the clone request's bio pointer when the last cloned
bio completes, ensuring that later teardown paths do not attempt to free
already-released bios.

Signed-off-by: Michael Liang <mliang@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Mohamed Khalfella <mkhalfella@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

parent c84e21a8

drivers/md/dm-rq.c

+10 −3

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -109,13 +109,20 @@ static void end_clone_bio(struct bio *clone)
		*/
		tio->completed += nr_bytes;

		if (!is_last)
		return;
		/*
		* At this moment we know this is the last bio of the cloned request,
		* and all cloned bios have been released, so reset the clone request's
		* bio pointer to avoid double free.
		*/
		tio->clone->bio = NULL;
		exit:
		/*
		* Update the original request.
		* Do not use blk_mq_end_request() here, because it may complete
		* the original request before the clone, and break the ordering.
		*/
		if (is_last)
		exit:
		blk_update_request(tio->orig, BLK_STS_OK, tio->completed);
		}