This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: target: core: Fix target_cmd_counter leak to the 6.5-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-core-fix-target_cmd_counter-leak.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 3fb20f5d58c67804613e5be3f859b43ca86c60f4 Author: David Disseldorp <ddiss@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu Aug 31 20:34:59 2023 +0200 scsi: target: core: Fix target_cmd_counter leak [ Upstream commit d14e3e553e05cb763964c991fe6acb0a6a1c6f9c ] The target_cmd_counter struct allocated via target_alloc_cmd_counter() is never freed, resulting in leaks across various transport types, e.g.: unreferenced object 0xffff88801f920120 (size 96): comm "sh", pid 102, jiffies 4294892535 (age 713.412s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 38 01 92 1f 80 88 ff ff ........8....... backtrace: [<00000000e58a6252>] kmalloc_trace+0x11/0x20 [<0000000043af4b2f>] target_alloc_cmd_counter+0x17/0x90 [target_core_mod] [<000000007da2dfa7>] target_setup_session+0x2d/0x140 [target_core_mod] [<0000000068feef86>] tcm_loop_tpg_nexus_store+0x19b/0x350 [tcm_loop] [<000000006a80e021>] configfs_write_iter+0xb1/0x120 [<00000000e9f4d860>] vfs_write+0x2e4/0x3c0 [<000000008143433b>] ksys_write+0x80/0xb0 [<00000000a7df29b2>] do_syscall_64+0x42/0x90 [<0000000053f45fb8>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8 Free the structure alongside the corresponding iscsit_conn / se_sess parent. Signed-off-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@xxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230831183459.6938-1-ddiss@xxxxxxx Fixes: becd9be6069e ("scsi: target: Move sess cmd counter to new struct") 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/target_core_transport.c b/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c index 687adc9e086ca..0686882bcbda3 100644 --- a/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c @@ -264,6 +264,7 @@ void target_free_cmd_counter(struct target_cmd_counter *cmd_cnt) percpu_ref_put(&cmd_cnt->refcnt); percpu_ref_exit(&cmd_cnt->refcnt); + kfree(cmd_cnt); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(target_free_cmd_counter);