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 3.18-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-3.18 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 15:03:25 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 @@ -674,6 +674,7 @@ 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", @@ -704,7 +705,7 @@ 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-3.18/target-iscsi-fix-a-race-condition-in-iscsit_add_reject_from_cmd.patch