This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled target/iscsi: Fix iSCSI task reassignment handling to the 4.4-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-iscsi-fix-iscsi-task-reassignment-handling.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 59b6986dbfcdab96a971f9663221849de79a7556 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 12:39:57 +0100 Subject: target/iscsi: Fix iSCSI task reassignment handling From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 59b6986dbfcdab96a971f9663221849de79a7556 upstream. Allocate a task management request structure for all task management requests, including task reassignment. This change avoids that the se_tmr->response assignment dereferences an uninitialized se_tmr pointer. Reported-by: Moshe David <mdavid@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Moshe David <mdavid@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c | 19 +++++++------------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c +++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c @@ -1759,7 +1759,7 @@ iscsit_handle_task_mgt_cmd(struct iscsi_ struct iscsi_tm *hdr; int out_of_order_cmdsn = 0, ret; bool sess_ref = false; - u8 function; + u8 function, tcm_function = TMR_UNKNOWN; hdr = (struct iscsi_tm *) buf; hdr->flags &= ~ISCSI_FLAG_CMD_FINAL; @@ -1805,10 +1805,6 @@ iscsit_handle_task_mgt_cmd(struct iscsi_ * LIO-Target $FABRIC_MOD */ if (function != ISCSI_TM_FUNC_TASK_REASSIGN) { - - u8 tcm_function; - int ret; - transport_init_se_cmd(&cmd->se_cmd, &iscsi_ops, conn->sess->se_sess, 0, DMA_NONE, TCM_SIMPLE_TAG, cmd->sense_buffer + 2); @@ -1844,15 +1840,14 @@ iscsit_handle_task_mgt_cmd(struct iscsi_ return iscsit_add_reject_cmd(cmd, ISCSI_REASON_BOOKMARK_NO_RESOURCES, buf); } - - ret = core_tmr_alloc_req(&cmd->se_cmd, cmd->tmr_req, - tcm_function, GFP_KERNEL); - if (ret < 0) - return iscsit_add_reject_cmd(cmd, + } + ret = core_tmr_alloc_req(&cmd->se_cmd, cmd->tmr_req, tcm_function, + GFP_KERNEL); + if (ret < 0) + return iscsit_add_reject_cmd(cmd, ISCSI_REASON_BOOKMARK_NO_RESOURCES, buf); - cmd->tmr_req->se_tmr_req = cmd->se_cmd.se_tmr_req; - } + cmd->tmr_req->se_tmr_req = cmd->se_cmd.se_tmr_req; cmd->iscsi_opcode = ISCSI_OP_SCSI_TMFUNC; cmd->i_state = ISTATE_SEND_TASKMGTRSP; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/target-iscsi-fix-iscsi-task-reassignment-handling.patch