This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

target/iscsi: Fix a race condition in iscsit_add_reject_from_cmd()

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: target-iscsi-fix-a-race-condition-in-iscsit_add_reject_from_cmd.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Mon Dec 18 14:47:43 CET 2017

From: Bart Van Assche bart.vanassche@wdc.com Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 11:03:17 -0700 Subject: target/iscsi: Fix a race condition in iscsit_add_reject_from_cmd()

From: Bart Van Assche bart.vanassche@wdc.com

[ Upstream commit cfe2b621bb18d86e93271febf8c6e37622da2d14 ]

Avoid that cmd->se_cmd.se_tfo is read after a command has already been freed.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche bart.vanassche@wdc.com Cc: Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de Cc: Mike Christie mchristi@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke hare@suse.com Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger nab@linux-iscsi.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c +++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c @@ -674,6 +674,7 @@ static int iscsit_add_reject_from_cmd( unsigned char *buf) { struct iscsi_conn *conn; + const bool do_put = cmd->se_cmd.se_tfo != NULL;

if (!cmd->conn) { pr_err("cmd->conn is NULL for ITT: 0x%08x\n", @@ -704,7 +705,7 @@ static int iscsit_add_reject_from_cmd( * Perform the kref_put now if se_cmd has already been setup by * scsit_setup_scsi_cmd() */ - if (cmd->se_cmd.se_tfo != NULL) { + if (do_put) { pr_debug("iscsi reject: calling target_put_sess_cmd >>>>>>\n"); target_put_sess_cmd(&cmd->se_cmd); }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bart.vanassche@wdc.com are

queue-4.4/target-iscsi-fix-a-race-condition-in-iscsit_add_reject_from_cmd.patch queue-4.4/rdma-cma-avoid-triggering-undefined-behavior.patch