This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: core: Remove the /proc/scsi/${proc_name} directory earlier to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: scsi-core-remove-the-proc-scsi-proc_name-directory-earlier.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From fc663711b94468f4e1427ebe289c9f05669699c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 12:52:00 -0800 Subject: scsi: core: Remove the /proc/scsi/${proc_name} directory earlier From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> commit fc663711b94468f4e1427ebe289c9f05669699c9 upstream. Remove the /proc/scsi/${proc_name} directory earlier to fix a race condition between unloading and reloading kernel modules. This fixes a bug introduced in 2009 by commit 77c019768f06 ("[SCSI] fix /proc memory leak in the SCSI core"). Fix the following kernel warning: proc_dir_entry 'scsi/scsi_debug' already registered WARNING: CPU: 19 PID: 27986 at fs/proc/generic.c:376 proc_register+0x27d/0x2e0 Call Trace: proc_mkdir+0xb5/0xe0 scsi_proc_hostdir_add+0xb5/0x170 scsi_host_alloc+0x683/0x6c0 sdebug_driver_probe+0x6b/0x2d0 [scsi_debug] really_probe+0x159/0x540 __driver_probe_device+0xdc/0x230 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x120 __device_attach_driver+0xef/0x180 bus_for_each_drv+0xe5/0x130 __device_attach+0x127/0x290 device_initial_probe+0x17/0x20 bus_probe_device+0x110/0x130 device_add+0x673/0xc80 device_register+0x1e/0x30 sdebug_add_host_helper+0x1a7/0x3b0 [scsi_debug] scsi_debug_init+0x64f/0x1000 [scsi_debug] do_one_initcall+0xd7/0x470 do_init_module+0xe7/0x330 load_module+0x122a/0x12c0 __do_sys_finit_module+0x124/0x1a0 __x64_sys_finit_module+0x46/0x50 do_syscall_64+0x38/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230210205200.36973-3-bvanassche@xxxxxxx Cc: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yi Zhang <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 77c019768f06 ("[SCSI] fix /proc memory leak in the SCSI core") Reported-by: Yi Zhang <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/hosts.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/scsi/hosts.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/hosts.c @@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ void scsi_remove_host(struct Scsi_Host * scsi_forget_host(shost); mutex_unlock(&shost->scan_mutex); scsi_proc_host_rm(shost); + scsi_proc_hostdir_rm(shost->hostt); spin_lock_irqsave(shost->host_lock, flags); if (scsi_host_set_state(shost, SHOST_DEL)) @@ -324,6 +325,7 @@ static void scsi_host_dev_release(struct struct Scsi_Host *shost = dev_to_shost(dev); struct device *parent = dev->parent; + /* In case scsi_remove_host() has not been called. */ scsi_proc_hostdir_rm(shost->hostt); /* Wait for functions invoked through call_rcu(&shost->rcu, ...) */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bvanassche@xxxxxxx are queue-4.14/fs-hfsplus-fix-uaf-issue-in-hfsplus_put_super.patch queue-4.14/scsi-core-remove-the-proc-scsi-proc_name-directory-earlier.patch