The patch below does not apply to the 3.14-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 7f54ab5ff52fb0b91569bc69c4a6bc5cac1b768d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 20:00:12 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] target: Drop incorrect ABORT_TASK put for completed commands This patch fixes a recent ABORT_TASK regression associated with commit febe562c, where a left-over target_put_sess_cmd() would still be called when __target_check_io_state() detected a command has already been completed, and explicit ABORT must be avoided. Note commit febe562c dropped the local kref_get_unless_zero() check in core_tmr_abort_task(), but did not drop this extra corresponding target_put_sess_cmd() in the failure path. So go ahead and drop this now bogus target_put_sess_cmd(), and avoid this potential use-after-free. Reported-by: Dan Lane <dracodan@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Quinn Tran <quinn.tran@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Grover <agrover@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Christie <mchristi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 3.14+ Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_tmr.c b/drivers/target/target_core_tmr.c index 82a663ba9800..4f229e711e1c 100644 --- a/drivers/target/target_core_tmr.c +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_tmr.c @@ -177,7 +177,6 @@ void core_tmr_abort_task( if (!__target_check_io_state(se_cmd, se_sess, 0)) { spin_unlock_irqrestore(&se_sess->sess_cmd_lock, flags); - target_put_sess_cmd(se_cmd); goto out; } list_del_init(&se_cmd->se_cmd_list); -- 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