This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled iscsi-target: make sure to wake up sleeping login worker 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: iscsi-target-make-sure-to-wake-up-sleeping-login-worker.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 1c130ae00b769a2e2df41bad3d6051ee8234b636 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 14:36:29 +0100 Subject: iscsi-target: make sure to wake up sleeping login worker From: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> commit 1c130ae00b769a2e2df41bad3d6051ee8234b636 upstream. Mike Christie reports: Starting in 4.14 iscsi logins will fail around 50% of the time. Problem appears to be that iscsi_target_sk_data_ready() callback may return without doing anything in case it finds the login work queue is still blocked in sock_recvmsg(). Nicholas Bellinger says: It would indicate users providing their own ->sk_data_ready() callback must be responsible for waking up a kthread context blocked on sock_recvmsg(..., MSG_WAITALL), when a second ->sk_data_ready() is received before the first sock_recvmsg(..., MSG_WAITALL) completes. So, do this and invoke the original data_ready() callback -- in case of tcp sockets this takes care of waking the thread. Disclaimer: I do not understand why this problem did not show up before tcp prequeue removal. (Drop WARN_ON usage - nab) Reported-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@xxxxxxxxxx> Bisected-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@xxxxxxxxxx> Diagnosed-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: e7942d0633c4 ("tcp: remove prequeue support") Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.14+ Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_nego.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_nego.c +++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_nego.c @@ -432,6 +432,9 @@ static void iscsi_target_sk_data_ready(s if (test_and_set_bit(LOGIN_FLAGS_READ_ACTIVE, &conn->login_flags)) { write_unlock_bh(&sk->sk_callback_lock); pr_debug("Got LOGIN_FLAGS_READ_ACTIVE=1, conn: %p >>>>\n", conn); + if (iscsi_target_sk_data_ready == conn->orig_data_ready) + return; + conn->orig_data_ready(sk); return; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from fw@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/iscsi-target-make-sure-to-wake-up-sleeping-login-worker.patch