Patch "IB/iser: Fix connection teardown race condition" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree

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

IB/iser: Fix connection teardown race condition

to the 4.12-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
ib-iser-fix-connection-teardown-race-condition.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Vladimir Neyelov <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 19:17:31 +0300
Subject: IB/iser: Fix connection teardown race condition

From: Vladimir Neyelov <[email protected]>

commit c8c16d3bae967f1c7af541e8d016e5c51e4f010a upstream.

Under heavy iser target(scst) start/stop stress during login/logout on iser intitiator side happened trace call provided below.

The function iscsi_iser_slave_alloc iser_conn pointer could be NULL, due to the fact that function iscsi_iser_conn_stop can be called before and free iser connection. Let's protect that flow by introducing global mutex.

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000001018
IP: [<ffffffffc0426f7e>] iscsi_iser_slave_alloc+0x1e/0x50 [ib_iser]
Call Trace:
? scsi_alloc_sdev+0x242/0x300
scsi_probe_and_add_lun+0x9e1/0xea0
? kfree_const+0x21/0x30
? kobject_set_name_vargs+0x76/0x90
? __pm_runtime_resume+0x5b/0x70
__scsi_scan_target+0xf6/0x250
scsi_scan_target+0xea/0x100
iscsi_user_scan_session.part.13+0x101/0x130 [scsi_transport_iscsi]
? iscsi_user_scan_session.part.13+0x130/0x130 [scsi_transport_iscsi]
iscsi_user_scan_session+0x1e/0x30 [scsi_transport_iscsi]
device_for_each_child+0x50/0x90
iscsi_user_scan+0x44/0x60 [scsi_transport_iscsi]
store_scan+0xa8/0x100
? common_file_perm+0x5d/0x1c0
dev_attr_store+0x18/0x30
sysfs_kf_write+0x37/0x40
kernfs_fop_write+0x12c/0x1c0
__vfs_write+0x18/0x40
vfs_write+0xb5/0x1a0
SyS_write+0x55/0xc0

---
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iscsi_iser.c |   11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ static struct scsi_host_template iscsi_i
 static struct iscsi_transport iscsi_iser_transport;
 static struct scsi_transport_template *iscsi_iser_scsi_transport;
 static struct workqueue_struct *release_wq;
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(unbind_iser_conn_mutex);
 struct iser_global ig;
 
 int iser_debug_level = 0;

@@ -550,12 +551,14 @@ iscsi_iser_conn_stop(struct iscsi_cls_co
 	 */
 	if (iser_conn) {
 		mutex_lock(&iser_conn->state_mutex);
+		mutex_lock(&unbind_iser_conn_mutex);
 		iser_conn_terminate(iser_conn);
 		iscsi_conn_stop(cls_conn, flag);
 
 		/* unbind */
 		iser_conn->iscsi_conn = NULL;
 		conn->dd_data = NULL;
+		mutex_unlock(&unbind_iser_conn_mutex);
 
 		complete(&iser_conn->stop_completion);
 		mutex_unlock(&iser_conn->state_mutex);

@@ -977,13 +980,21 @@ static int iscsi_iser_slave_alloc(struct
 	struct iser_conn *iser_conn;
 	struct ib_device *ib_dev;
 
+	mutex_lock(&unbind_iser_conn_mutex);
+
 	session = starget_to_session(scsi_target(sdev))->dd_data;
 	iser_conn = session->leadconn->dd_data;
+	if (!iser_conn) {
+		mutex_unlock(&unbind_iser_conn_mutex);
+		return -ENOTCONN;
+	}
 	ib_dev = iser_conn->ib_conn.device->ib_device;
 
 	if (!(ib_dev->attrs.device_cap_flags & IB_DEVICE_SG_GAPS_REG))
 		blk_queue_virt_boundary(sdev->request_queue, ~MASK_4K);
 
+	mutex_unlock(&unbind_iser_conn_mutex);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.12/ib-iser-fix-connection-teardown-race-condition.patch