This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
IB/srp: Avoid that a cable pull can trigger a kernel crash
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:
ib-srp-avoid-that-a-cable-pull-can-trigger-a-kernel-crash.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 8a0d18c62121d3c554a83eb96e2752861d84d937 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 10:27:26 -0700
Subject: IB/srp: Avoid that a cable pull can trigger a kernel crash
From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx>
commit 8a0d18c62121d3c554a83eb96e2752861d84d937 upstream.
This patch fixes the following kernel crash:
general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Workqueue: ib_mad2 timeout_sends [ib_core]
Call Trace:
ib_sa_path_rec_callback+0x1c4/0x1d0 [ib_core]
send_handler+0xb2/0xd0 [ib_core]
timeout_sends+0x14d/0x220 [ib_core]
process_one_work+0x200/0x630
worker_thread+0x4e/0x3b0
kthread+0x113/0x150
Fixes: commit aef9ec39c47f ("IB: Add SCSI RDMA Protocol (SRP) initiator")
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c
@@ -665,12 +665,19 @@ static void srp_path_rec_completion(int
static int srp_lookup_path(struct srp_rdma_ch *ch)
{
struct srp_target_port *target = ch->target;
- int ret;
+ int ret = -ENODEV;
ch->path.numb_path = 1;
init_completion(&ch->done);
+ /*
+ * Avoid that the SCSI host can be removed by srp_remove_target()
+ * before srp_path_rec_completion() is called.
+ */
+ if (!scsi_host_get(target->scsi_host))
+ goto out;
+
ch->path_query_id = ib_sa_path_rec_get(&srp_sa_client,
target->srp_host->srp_dev->dev,
target->srp_host->port,
@@ -684,18 +691,24 @@ static int srp_lookup_path(struct srp_rd
GFP_KERNEL,
srp_path_rec_completion,
ch, &ch->path_query);
- if (ch->path_query_id < 0)
- return ch->path_query_id;
+ ret = ch->path_query_id;
+ if (ret < 0)
+ goto put;
ret = wait_for_completion_interruptible(&ch->done);
if (ret < 0)
- return ret;
+ goto put;
- if (ch->status < 0)
+ ret = ch->status;
+ if (ret < 0)
shost_printk(KERN_WARNING, target->scsi_host,
PFX "Path record query failed\n");
- return ch->status;
+put:
+ scsi_host_put(target->scsi_host);
+
+out:
+ return ret;
}
static int srp_send_req(struct srp_rdma_ch *ch, bool multich)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/block-fix-a-race-between-blk_cleanup_queue-and-timeout-handling.patch
queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-suppress-a-kernel-complaint-in-qla_init_base_qpair.patch
queue-4.14/ib-srp-avoid-that-a-cable-pull-can-trigger-a-kernel-crash.patch
queue-4.14/ib-srpt-do-not-accept-invalid-initiator-port-names.patch