This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: target: iscsi: Prevent login threads from racing between each other 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-target-iscsi-prevent-login-threads-from-racing-.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 de5e2f22347c8c28895b42298906e77edb6dfad2 Author: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon May 8 18:22:19 2023 +0200 scsi: target: iscsi: Prevent login threads from racing between each other [ Upstream commit 2a737d3b8c792400118d6cf94958f559de9c5e59 ] The tpg->np_login_sem is a semaphore that is used to serialize the login process when multiple login threads run concurrently against the same target portal group. The iscsi_target_locate_portal() function finds the tpg, calls iscsit_access_np() against the np_login_sem semaphore and saves the tpg pointer in conn->tpg; If iscsi_target_locate_portal() fails, the caller will check for the conn->tpg pointer and, if it's not NULL, then it will assume that iscsi_target_locate_portal() called iscsit_access_np() on the semaphore. Make sure that conn->tpg gets initialized only if iscsit_access_np() was successful, otherwise iscsit_deaccess_np() may end up being called against a semaphore we never took, allowing more than one thread to access the same tpg. Signed-off-by: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230508162219.1731964-4-mlombard@xxxxxxxxxx Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_nego.c b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_nego.c index e32d93b927428..4017464a5909b 100644 --- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_nego.c +++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_nego.c @@ -1053,6 +1053,7 @@ int iscsi_target_locate_portal( iscsi_target_set_sock_callbacks(conn); login->np = np; + conn->tpg = NULL; login_req = (struct iscsi_login_req *) login->req; payload_length = ntoh24(login_req->dlength); @@ -1122,7 +1123,6 @@ int iscsi_target_locate_portal( */ sessiontype = strncmp(s_buf, DISCOVERY, 9); if (!sessiontype) { - conn->tpg = iscsit_global->discovery_tpg; if (!login->leading_connection) goto get_target; @@ -1139,9 +1139,11 @@ int iscsi_target_locate_portal( * Serialize access across the discovery struct iscsi_portal_group to * process login attempt. */ + conn->tpg = iscsit_global->discovery_tpg; if (iscsit_access_np(np, conn->tpg) < 0) { iscsit_tx_login_rsp(conn, ISCSI_STATUS_CLS_TARGET_ERR, ISCSI_LOGIN_STATUS_SVC_UNAVAILABLE); + conn->tpg = NULL; ret = -1; goto out; }