On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 08:12:10PM +0000, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > This patch fixes a regression introduced with the following commit > in v4.0-rc1 code, where a iscsit_start_kthreads() failure triggers > a NULL pointer dereference OOPs: > > commit 88dcd2dab5c23b1c9cfc396246d8f476c872f0ca > Author: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu Feb 26 22:19:15 2015 -0800 > > iscsi-target: Convert iscsi_thread_set usage to kthread.h > > To address this bug, move iscsit_start_kthreads() immediately > preceeding the transmit of last login response, before signaling > a successful transition into full-feature-phase within existing > iscsi_target_do_tx_login_io() logic. > > This ensures that no target-side resource allocation failures can > occur after the final login response has been successfully sent. > > Also, it adds a iscsi_conn->rx_login_comp to allow the RX thread > to sleep to prevent other socket related failures until the final > iscsi_post_login_handler() call is able to complete. > > Issue DAT-3610 > > Change-Id: Ie41cd45dba698d4984ca711a56e4ffd3bb32ca6d What is that here for? I need to know the git commit id in Linus's tree, I guess I have to go dig it out now... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html