This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled target/iscsi: Fix a race condition in iscsit_add_reject_from_cmd() 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-iscsi-fix-a-race-condition-in-iscsit_add_reject_from_cmd.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 foo@baz Mon Dec 18 13:28:59 CET 2017 From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 11:03:17 -0700 Subject: target/iscsi: Fix a race condition in iscsit_add_reject_from_cmd() From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit cfe2b621bb18d86e93271febf8c6e37622da2d14 ] Avoid that cmd->se_cmd.se_tfo is read after a command has already been freed. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Mike Christie <mchristi@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c +++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c @@ -834,6 +834,7 @@ static int iscsit_add_reject_from_cmd( unsigned char *buf) { struct iscsi_conn *conn; + const bool do_put = cmd->se_cmd.se_tfo != NULL; if (!cmd->conn) { pr_err("cmd->conn is NULL for ITT: 0x%08x\n", @@ -864,7 +865,7 @@ static int iscsit_add_reject_from_cmd( * Perform the kref_put now if se_cmd has already been setup by * scsit_setup_scsi_cmd() */ - if (cmd->se_cmd.se_tfo != NULL) { + if (do_put) { pr_debug("iscsi reject: calling target_put_sess_cmd >>>>>>\n"); target_put_sess_cmd(&cmd->se_cmd); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx are queue-4.14/ib-core-fix-endianness-annotation-in-rdma_is_multicast_addr.patch queue-4.14/target-iscsi-detect-conn_cmd_list-corruption-early.patch queue-4.14/target-iscsi-fix-a-race-condition-in-iscsit_add_reject_from_cmd.patch queue-4.14/rdma-cma-avoid-triggering-undefined-behavior.patch queue-4.14/scsi-core-fix-a-scsi_show_rq-null-pointer-dereference.patch queue-4.14/blk-mq-sched-dispatch-from-scheduler-iff-progress-is-made-in-dispatch.patch