This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nvmet-tcp: fix kernel crash if commands allocation fails to the 5.15-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-tcp-fix-kernel-crash-if-commands-allocation-fa.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 9e16b3a71170b6625e98fe10b4fc663d59f2958a Author: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Aug 21 16:28:26 2024 +0200 nvmet-tcp: fix kernel crash if commands allocation fails [ Upstream commit 5572a55a6f830ee3f3a994b6b962a5c327d28cb3 ] If the commands allocation fails in nvmet_tcp_alloc_cmds() the kernel crashes in nvmet_tcp_release_queue_work() because of a NULL pointer dereference. nvmet: failed to install queue 0 cntlid 1 ret 6 Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000008 Fix the bug by setting queue->nr_cmds to zero in case nvmet_tcp_alloc_cmd() fails. Fixes: 872d26a391da ("nvmet-tcp: add NVMe over TCP target driver") Signed-off-by: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c b/drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c index df044a79a734..809b03b86a00 100644 --- a/drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c +++ b/drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c @@ -1819,8 +1819,10 @@ static u16 nvmet_tcp_install_queue(struct nvmet_sq *sq) } queue->nr_cmds = sq->size * 2; - if (nvmet_tcp_alloc_cmds(queue)) + if (nvmet_tcp_alloc_cmds(queue)) { + queue->nr_cmds = 0; return NVME_SC_INTERNAL; + } return 0; }