This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: scsi_debug: num_tgts must be >= 0 to the 5.4-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: scsi-scsi_debug-num_tgts-must-be-0.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 128bf82a212616982a1e9da7dc21b52946c12eda Author: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Nov 15 17:37:27 2019 +0100 scsi: scsi_debug: num_tgts must be >= 0 [ Upstream commit aa5334c4f3014940f11bf876e919c956abef4089 ] Passing the parameter "num_tgts=-1" will start an infinite loop that exhausts the system memory Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191115163727.24626-1-mlombard@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c index d323523f5f9d..32965ec76965 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c @@ -5263,6 +5263,11 @@ static int __init scsi_debug_init(void) return -EINVAL; } + if (sdebug_num_tgts < 0) { + pr_err("num_tgts must be >= 0\n"); + return -EINVAL; + } + if (sdebug_guard > 1) { pr_err("guard must be 0 or 1\n"); return -EINVAL;