This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
nvmet-fc: hold reference on hostport match
to the 6.1-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:
nvmet-fc-hold-reference-on-hostport-match.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit c848dcc07a235448ae0c6dfeffac623d515b03c8
Author: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jan 31 09:51:06 2024 +0100
nvmet-fc: hold reference on hostport match
[ Upstream commit ca121a0f7515591dba0eb5532bfa7ace4dc153ce ]
The hostport data structure is shared between the association, this why
we keep track of the users via a refcount. So we should not decrement
the refcount on a match and free the hostport several times.
Reported by KASAN.
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/fc.c b/drivers/nvme/target/fc.c
index c9ef642313c8f..64c26b703860c 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/fc.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/fc.c
@@ -1069,8 +1069,6 @@ nvmet_fc_alloc_hostport(struct nvmet_fc_tgtport *tgtport, void *hosthandle)
/* new allocation not needed */
kfree(newhost);
newhost = match;
- /* no new allocation - release reference */
- nvmet_fc_tgtport_put(tgtport);
} else {
newhost->tgtport = tgtport;
newhost->hosthandle = hosthandle;
