This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled target: Fix caw_sem leak in transport_generic_request_failure to the 4.14-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-caw_sem-leak-in-transport_generic_request_failure.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From fd2f928b0ddd2fe8876d4f1344df2ace2b715a4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 16:03:24 -0700 Subject: target: Fix caw_sem leak in transport_generic_request_failure From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit fd2f928b0ddd2fe8876d4f1344df2ace2b715a4d upstream. With the recent addition of transport_check_aborted_status() within transport_generic_request_failure() to avoid sending a SCSI status exception after CMD_T_ABORTED w/ TAS=1 has occured, it introduced a COMPARE_AND_WRITE early failure regression. Namely when COMPARE_AND_WRITE fails and se_device->caw_sem has been taken by sbc_compare_and_write(), if the new check for transport_check_aborted_status() returns true and exits, cmd->transport_complete_callback() -> compare_and_write_post() is skipped never releasing se_device->caw_sem. This regression was originally introduced by: commit e3b88ee95b4e4bf3e9729a4695d695b9c7c296c8 Author: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Feb 14 16:25:45 2017 -0800 target: Fix handling of aborted failed commands To address this bug, move the transport_check_aborted_status() call after transport_complete_task_attr() and cmd->transport_complete_callback(). Cc: Mike Christie <mchristi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/target/target_core_transport.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c @@ -1730,9 +1730,6 @@ void transport_generic_request_failure(s { int ret = 0, post_ret = 0; - if (transport_check_aborted_status(cmd, 1)) - return; - pr_debug("-----[ Storage Engine Exception; sense_reason %d\n", sense_reason); target_show_cmd("-----[ ", cmd); @@ -1741,6 +1738,7 @@ void transport_generic_request_failure(s * For SAM Task Attribute emulation for failed struct se_cmd */ transport_complete_task_attr(cmd); + /* * Handle special case for COMPARE_AND_WRITE failure, where the * callback is expected to drop the per device ->caw_sem. @@ -1749,6 +1747,9 @@ void transport_generic_request_failure(s cmd->transport_complete_callback) cmd->transport_complete_callback(cmd, false, &post_ret); + if (transport_check_aborted_status(cmd, 1)) + return; + switch (sense_reason) { case TCM_NON_EXISTENT_LUN: case TCM_UNSUPPORTED_SCSI_OPCODE: Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/target-fix-null-pointer-regression-in-core_tmr_drain_tmr_list.patch queue-4.14/iscsi-target-make-task_reassign-use-proper-se_cmd-cmd_kref.patch queue-4.14/target-fix-queue_full-scsi-task-attribute-handling.patch queue-4.14/target-fix-buffer-offset-in-core_scsi3_pri_read_full_status.patch queue-4.14/iscsi-target-fix-non-immediate-tmr-reference-leak.patch queue-4.14/target-fix-caw_sem-leak-in-transport_generic_request_failure.patch queue-4.14/target-avoid-early-cmd_t_pre_execute-failures-during-abort_task.patch queue-4.14/target-fix-quiese-during-transport_write_pending_qf-endless-loop.patch