[lvc-project] [PATCH] dm-raid: fix possible NULL dereference with undefined raid type

Alexey Simakov bigalex934 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 2 20:18:38 MSK 2025


rs->raid_type is assigned from get_raid_type_by_ll(), which may return
NULL. This NULL value could be dereferenced later in the condition
'if (!(rs_is_raid10(rs) && rt_is_raid0(rs->raid_type)))'.

Add a fail-fast check to return early with an error if raid_type is NULL,
similar to other uses of this function.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Svace.

Fixes: 33e53f06850f ("dm raid: introduce extended superblock and new raid types to support takeover/reshaping")
Signed-off-by: Alexey Simakov <bigalex934 at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm-raid.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-raid.c b/drivers/md/dm-raid.c
index c6f7129e43d3..4bacdc499984 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-raid.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-raid.c
@@ -2287,6 +2287,8 @@ static int super_init_validation(struct raid_set *rs, struct md_rdev *rdev)
 
 			mddev->reshape_position = le64_to_cpu(sb->reshape_position);
 			rs->raid_type = get_raid_type_by_ll(mddev->level, mddev->layout);
+			if (!rs->raid_type)
+				return -EINVAL;
 		}
 
 	} else {
-- 
2.34.1




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