Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] nvme: add missing SRCU grace period in error path" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree
To: tristan@talencesecurity.com,hch@lst.de,john.g.garry@oracle.com,kbusch@kernel.org,sagi@grimberg.me
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:43:40 +0200
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The patch below does not apply to the 6.6-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.6.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x ef248d5de4469fb6bbaf8dbe0c4c47800080d648
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026090940-seventy-hexagram-9370@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.6.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:


thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From ef248d5de4469fb6bbaf8dbe0c4c47800080d648 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tristan Madani <tristan@talencesecurity.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:14:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] nvme: add missing SRCU grace period in error path

nvme_alloc_ns() error path at out_unlink_ns removes ns from the
namespace head siblings list with list_del_rcu(&ns->siblings) but
does not wait for SRCU readers before freeing the namespace struct.
Multipath code iterates the head->list under srcu_read_lock() in
nvme_find_path() and nvme_mpath_revalidate_paths(), so a concurrent
reader can still hold a reference to ns when kfree(ns) runs.

The normal removal path in nvme_ns_remove() correctly calls
synchronize_srcu(&ns->head->srcu) after list_del_rcu() to wait for
in-progress readers. Add the same grace period in the error path.

Fixes: ed754e5deeb1 ("nvme: track shared namespaces")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tristan Madani <tristan@talencesecurity.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
index 5f2744be7388..9739ce38b73a 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
@@ -4345,6 +4345,9 @@ static void nvme_alloc_ns(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, struct nvme_ns_info *info)
 			last_path = true;
 	}
 	mutex_unlock(&ctrl->subsys->lock);
+
+	/* guarantee not available in head->list */
+	synchronize_srcu(&ns->head->srcu);
 	if (last_path)
 		nvme_put_ns_head(ns->head);
 	nvme_put_ns_head(ns->head);