This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nvme-tcp: fix possible use-after-free in transport error_recovery work to the 5.16-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: nvme-tcp-fix-possible-use-after-free-in-transport-er.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.16 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit bb9602b386aa08c3e7ed57b4ac0f37f890efdb04 Author: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Feb 1 14:54:20 2022 +0200 nvme-tcp: fix possible use-after-free in transport error_recovery work [ Upstream commit ff9fc7ebf5c06de1ef72a69f9b1ab40af8b07f9e ] While nvme_tcp_submit_async_event_work is checking the ctrl and queue state before preparing the AER command and scheduling io_work, in order to fully prevent a race where this check is not reliable the error recovery work must flush async_event_work before continuing to destroy the admin queue after setting the ctrl state to RESETTING such that there is no race .submit_async_event and the error recovery handler itself changing the ctrl state. Tested-by: Chris Leech <cleech@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c b/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c index 22046415a0942..891a36d02e7c7 100644 --- a/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c @@ -2104,6 +2104,7 @@ static void nvme_tcp_error_recovery_work(struct work_struct *work) struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl = &tcp_ctrl->ctrl; nvme_stop_keep_alive(ctrl); + flush_work(&ctrl->async_event_work); nvme_tcp_teardown_io_queues(ctrl, false); /* unquiesce to fail fast pending requests */ nvme_start_queues(ctrl);