This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled target: Fix early transport_generic_handle_tmr abort scenario to the 4.9-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: target-fix-early-transport_generic_handle_tmr-abort-scenario.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c54eeffbe9338fa982dc853d816fda9202a13b5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 22:45:46 -0800 Subject: target: Fix early transport_generic_handle_tmr abort scenario From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit c54eeffbe9338fa982dc853d816fda9202a13b5a upstream. This patch fixes a bug where incoming task management requests can be explicitly aborted during an active LUN_RESET, but who's struct work_struct are canceled in-flight before execution. This occurs when core_tmr_drain_tmr_list() invokes cancel_work_sync() for the incoming se_tmr_req->task_cmd->work, resulting in cmd->work for target_tmr_work() never getting invoked and the aborted TMR waiting indefinately within transport_wait_for_tasks(). To address this case, perform a CMD_T_ABORTED check early in transport_generic_handle_tmr(), and invoke the normal path via transport_cmd_check_stop_to_fabric() to complete any TMR kthreads blocked waiting for CMD_T_STOP in transport_wait_for_tasks(). Also, move the TRANSPORT_ISTATE_PROCESSING assignment earlier into transport_generic_handle_tmr() so the existing check in core_tmr_drain_tmr_list() avoids attempting abort the incoming se_tmr_req->task_cmd->work if it has already been queued into se_device->tmr_wq. Reported-by: Rob Millner <rlm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Rob Millner <rlm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rob Millner <rlm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/target/target_core_transport.c | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c @@ -3086,7 +3086,6 @@ static void target_tmr_work(struct work_ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cmd->t_state_lock, flags); goto check_stop; } - cmd->t_state = TRANSPORT_ISTATE_PROCESSING; spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cmd->t_state_lock, flags); cmd->se_tfo->queue_tm_rsp(cmd); @@ -3099,11 +3098,25 @@ int transport_generic_handle_tmr( struct se_cmd *cmd) { unsigned long flags; + bool aborted = false; spin_lock_irqsave(&cmd->t_state_lock, flags); - cmd->transport_state |= CMD_T_ACTIVE; + if (cmd->transport_state & CMD_T_ABORTED) { + aborted = true; + } else { + cmd->t_state = TRANSPORT_ISTATE_PROCESSING; + cmd->transport_state |= CMD_T_ACTIVE; + } spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cmd->t_state_lock, flags); + if (aborted) { + pr_warn_ratelimited("handle_tmr caught CMD_T_ABORTED TMR %d" + "ref_tag: %llu tag: %llu\n", cmd->se_tmr_req->function, + cmd->se_tmr_req->ref_task_tag, cmd->tag); + transport_cmd_check_stop_to_fabric(cmd); + return 0; + } + INIT_WORK(&cmd->work, target_tmr_work); queue_work(cmd->se_dev->tmr_wq, &cmd->work); return 0; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/target-fix-compare_and_write-ref-leak-for-non-good-status.patch queue-4.9/target-fix-multi-session-dynamic-se_node_acl-double-free-oops.patch queue-4.9/target-use-correct-scsi-status-during-extended_copy-exception.patch queue-4.9/ibmvscsis-add-sgl-limit.patch queue-4.9/target-don-t-bug_on-during-nodeacl-dynamic-explicit-conversion.patch queue-4.9/target-fix-early-transport_generic_handle_tmr-abort-scenario.patch -- 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