Patch "IB/srp: Avoid that a cable pull can trigger a kernel crash" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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

IB/srp: Avoid that a cable pull can trigger a kernel crash

to the 4.14-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-srp-avoid-that-a-cable-pull-can-trigger-a-kernel-crash.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

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

From: Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 10:27:26 -0700
Subject: IB/srp: Avoid that a cable pull can trigger a kernel crash

From: Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>

commit 8a0d18c62121d3c554a83eb96e2752861d84d937 upstream.

This patch fixes the following kernel crash:

general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Workqueue: ib_mad2 timeout_sends [ib_core]
Call Trace:
 ib_sa_path_rec_callback+0x1c4/0x1d0 [ib_core]
 send_handler+0xb2/0xd0 [ib_core]
 timeout_sends+0x14d/0x220 [ib_core]
 process_one_work+0x200/0x630
 worker_thread+0x4e/0x3b0
 kthread+0x113/0x150

---
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c |   25 +++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

@@ -665,12 +665,19 @@ static void srp_path_rec_completion(int
 static int srp_lookup_path(struct srp_rdma_ch *ch)
 {
 	struct srp_target_port *target = ch->target;
-	int ret;
+	int ret = -ENODEV;
 
 	ch->path.numb_path = 1;
 
 	init_completion(&ch->done);
 
+	/*
+	 * Avoid that the SCSI host can be removed by srp_remove_target()
+	 * before srp_path_rec_completion() is called.
+	 */
+	if (!scsi_host_get(target->scsi_host))
+		goto out;
+
 	ch->path_query_id = ib_sa_path_rec_get(&srp_sa_client,
 					       target->srp_host->srp_dev->dev,
 					       target->srp_host->port,

@@ -684,18 +691,24 @@ static int srp_lookup_path(struct srp_rd
 					       GFP_KERNEL,
 					       srp_path_rec_completion,
 					       ch, &ch->path_query);
-	if (ch->path_query_id < 0)
-		return ch->path_query_id;
+	ret = ch->path_query_id;
+	if (ret < 0)
+		goto put;
 
 	ret = wait_for_completion_interruptible(&ch->done);
 	if (ret < 0)
-		return ret;
+		goto put;
 
-	if (ch->status < 0)
+	ret = ch->status;
+	if (ret < 0)
 		shost_printk(KERN_WARNING, target->scsi_host,
 			     PFX "Path record query failed\n");
 
-	return ch->status;
+put:
+	scsi_host_put(target->scsi_host);
+
+out:
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static int srp_send_req(struct srp_rdma_ch *ch, bool multich)

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

queue-4.14/block-fix-a-race-between-blk_cleanup_queue-and-timeout-handling.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-suppress-a-kernel-complaint-in-qla_init_base_qpair.patch queue-4.14/ib-srp-avoid-that-a-cable-pull-can-trigger-a-kernel-crash.patch queue-4.14/ib-srpt-do-not-accept-invalid-initiator-port-names.patch