Forwarded: [PATCH] md/raid5: fix NULL pointer dereference in raid5_has_ppl

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Date: Tue Sep 22 2026 - 08:17:47 EST


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Subject: [PATCH] md/raid5: fix NULL pointer dereference in raid5_has_ppl
Author: nsvatoslav515@xxxxxxxxx

Check if conf->mddev is non-NULL in raid5_has_ppl() before testing flags to
prevent a KASAN null-ptr-deref during free_conf() cleanup paths.

#syz test: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git f0100363d8c3

Signed-off-by: Svyatoslav Nikolenko <nsvatoslav515@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/raid5-log.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5-log.h b/drivers/md/raid5-log.h
index c8332502669e..5a144051b142 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5-log.h
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5-log.h
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ static inline bool raid5_has_log(struct r5conf *conf)

static inline bool raid5_has_ppl(struct r5conf *conf)
{
- return test_bit(MD_HAS_PPL, &conf->mddev->flags);
+ return conf->mddev && test_bit(MD_HAS_PPL, &conf->mddev->flags);
}

static inline int log_stripe(struct stripe_head *sh, struct stripe_head_state *s)
--
2.47.3