Re: [PATCH] target: Fix target_sense_desc_format NULL pointer dereference

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On 9/16/2015 9:31 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This patch allows target_sense_desc_format() to be called without a
valid se_device pointer, which can occur during an early exception
ahead of transport_lookup_cmd_lun() setting up se_cmd->se_device.

This addresses a v4.3-rc1 specific NULL pointer dereference
regression introduced by commit 4e4937e8.

Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/target/target_core_hba.c | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_hba.c b/drivers/target/target_core_hba.c
index 9522960..22390e0 100644
--- a/drivers/target/target_core_hba.c
+++ b/drivers/target/target_core_hba.c
@@ -187,5 +187,5 @@ core_delete_hba(struct se_hba *hba)

  bool target_sense_desc_format(struct se_device *dev)
  {
-	return dev->transport->get_blocks(dev) > U32_MAX;
+	return (dev) ? dev->transport->get_blocks(dev) > U32_MAX : false;
  }


Can we be sure that the only case we'll call target_sense_desc_format()
with a NULL se_device will be when returning a CHECK_CONDITION on a
non-existing LUN?

We return the sense format in the D_SENSE of the control modepage
response and if some future bug will happen to call this function with
a NULL se_device we might violate what we reported to the initiator.

Maybe we should enforce this by having transport_lookup_cmd_lun() set
se_cmd->se_device = TARGET_NON_EXISTENT_LUN reserved identifier and check for that rather then NULL?

Thoughts?
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