Patch "target: Obtain se_node_acl->acl_kref during get_initiator_node_acl" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    target: Obtain se_node_acl->acl_kref during get_initiator_node_acl

to the 4.4-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-obtain-se_node_acl-acl_kref-during-get_initiator_node_acl.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 21aaa23b0ebbd19334fa461370c03cbb076b3295 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 22:09:27 -0800
Subject: target: Obtain se_node_acl->acl_kref during get_initiator_node_acl

From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

commit 21aaa23b0ebbd19334fa461370c03cbb076b3295 upstream.

This patch addresses a long standing race where obtaining
se_node_acl->acl_kref in __transport_register_session()
happens a bit too late, and leaves open the potential
for core_tpg_del_initiator_node_acl() to hit a NULL
pointer dereference.

Instead, take ->acl_kref in core_tpg_get_initiator_node_acl()
while se_portal_group->acl_node_mutex is held, and move the
final target_put_nacl() from transport_deregister_session()
into transport_free_session() so that fabric driver login
failure handling using the modern method to still work
as expected.

Also, update core_tpg_get_initiator_node_acl() to take
an extra reference for dynamically generated acls for
demo-mode, before returning to fabric caller.  Also
update iscsi-target sendtargets special case handling
to use target_tpg_has_node_acl() when checking if
demo_mode_discovery == true during discovery lookup.

Note the existing wait_for_completion(&acl->acl_free_comp)
in core_tpg_del_initiator_node_acl() does not change.

Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c    |    2 -
 drivers/target/target_core_tpg.c       |   42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 drivers/target/target_core_transport.c |   19 ++++++++++----
 include/target/target_core_fabric.h    |    2 +
 4 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
+++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
@@ -3436,7 +3436,7 @@ iscsit_build_sendtargets_response(struct
 
 			if ((tpg->tpg_attrib.generate_node_acls == 0) &&
 			    (tpg->tpg_attrib.demo_mode_discovery == 0) &&
-			    (!core_tpg_get_initiator_node_acl(&tpg->tpg_se_tpg,
+			    (!target_tpg_has_node_acl(&tpg->tpg_se_tpg,
 				cmd->conn->sess->sess_ops->InitiatorName))) {
 				continue;
 			}
--- a/drivers/target/target_core_tpg.c
+++ b/drivers/target/target_core_tpg.c
@@ -75,9 +75,21 @@ struct se_node_acl *core_tpg_get_initiat
 	unsigned char *initiatorname)
 {
 	struct se_node_acl *acl;
-
+	/*
+	 * Obtain se_node_acl->acl_kref using fabric driver provided
+	 * initiatorname[] during node acl endpoint lookup driven by
+	 * new se_session login.
+	 *
+	 * The reference is held until se_session shutdown -> release
+	 * occurs via fabric driver invoked transport_deregister_session()
+	 * or transport_free_session() code.
+	 */
 	mutex_lock(&tpg->acl_node_mutex);
 	acl = __core_tpg_get_initiator_node_acl(tpg, initiatorname);
+	if (acl) {
+		if (!kref_get_unless_zero(&acl->acl_kref))
+			acl = NULL;
+	}
 	mutex_unlock(&tpg->acl_node_mutex);
 
 	return acl;
@@ -232,6 +244,25 @@ static void target_add_node_acl(struct s
 		acl->initiatorname);
 }
 
+bool target_tpg_has_node_acl(struct se_portal_group *tpg,
+			     const char *initiatorname)
+{
+	struct se_node_acl *acl;
+	bool found = false;
+
+	mutex_lock(&tpg->acl_node_mutex);
+	list_for_each_entry(acl, &tpg->acl_node_list, acl_list) {
+		if (!strcmp(acl->initiatorname, initiatorname)) {
+			found = true;
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+	mutex_unlock(&tpg->acl_node_mutex);
+
+	return found;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(target_tpg_has_node_acl);
+
 struct se_node_acl *core_tpg_check_initiator_node_acl(
 	struct se_portal_group *tpg,
 	unsigned char *initiatorname)
@@ -248,6 +279,15 @@ struct se_node_acl *core_tpg_check_initi
 	acl = target_alloc_node_acl(tpg, initiatorname);
 	if (!acl)
 		return NULL;
+	/*
+	 * When allocating a dynamically generated node_acl, go ahead
+	 * and take the extra kref now before returning to the fabric
+	 * driver caller.
+	 *
+	 * Note this reference will be released at session shutdown
+	 * time within transport_free_session() code.
+	 */
+	kref_get(&acl->acl_kref);
 	acl->dynamic_node_acl = 1;
 
 	/*
--- a/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
+++ b/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
@@ -341,7 +341,6 @@ void __transport_register_session(
 					&buf[0], PR_REG_ISID_LEN);
 			se_sess->sess_bin_isid = get_unaligned_be64(&buf[0]);
 		}
-		kref_get(&se_nacl->acl_kref);
 
 		spin_lock_irq(&se_nacl->nacl_sess_lock);
 		/*
@@ -432,6 +431,7 @@ void target_put_nacl(struct se_node_acl
 {
 	kref_put(&nacl->acl_kref, target_complete_nacl);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(target_put_nacl);
 
 void transport_deregister_session_configfs(struct se_session *se_sess)
 {
@@ -464,6 +464,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(transport_deregister_sessi
 
 void transport_free_session(struct se_session *se_sess)
 {
+	struct se_node_acl *se_nacl = se_sess->se_node_acl;
+	/*
+	 * Drop the se_node_acl->nacl_kref obtained from within
+	 * core_tpg_get_initiator_node_acl().
+	 */
+	if (se_nacl) {
+		se_sess->se_node_acl = NULL;
+		target_put_nacl(se_nacl);
+	}
 	if (se_sess->sess_cmd_map) {
 		percpu_ida_destroy(&se_sess->sess_tag_pool);
 		kvfree(se_sess->sess_cmd_map);
@@ -478,7 +487,7 @@ void transport_deregister_session(struct
 	const struct target_core_fabric_ops *se_tfo;
 	struct se_node_acl *se_nacl;
 	unsigned long flags;
-	bool comp_nacl = true, drop_nacl = false;
+	bool drop_nacl = false;
 
 	if (!se_tpg) {
 		transport_free_session(se_sess);
@@ -511,18 +520,16 @@ void transport_deregister_session(struct
 	if (drop_nacl) {
 		core_tpg_wait_for_nacl_pr_ref(se_nacl);
 		core_free_device_list_for_node(se_nacl, se_tpg);
+		se_sess->se_node_acl = NULL;
 		kfree(se_nacl);
-		comp_nacl = false;
 	}
 	pr_debug("TARGET_CORE[%s]: Deregistered fabric_sess\n",
 		se_tpg->se_tpg_tfo->get_fabric_name());
 	/*
 	 * If last kref is dropping now for an explicit NodeACL, awake sleeping
 	 * ->acl_free_comp caller to wakeup configfs se_node_acl->acl_group
-	 * removal context.
+	 * removal context from within transport_free_session() code.
 	 */
-	if (se_nacl && comp_nacl)
-		target_put_nacl(se_nacl);
 
 	transport_free_session(se_sess);
 }
--- a/include/target/target_core_fabric.h
+++ b/include/target/target_core_fabric.h
@@ -168,6 +168,8 @@ void	core_allocate_nexus_loss_ua(struct
 
 struct se_node_acl *core_tpg_get_initiator_node_acl(struct se_portal_group *tpg,
 		unsigned char *);
+bool	target_tpg_has_node_acl(struct se_portal_group *tpg,
+		const char *);
 struct se_node_acl *core_tpg_check_initiator_node_acl(struct se_portal_group *,
 		unsigned char *);
 int	core_tpg_set_initiator_node_queue_depth(struct se_portal_group *,


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nab@linux-iscsi.org are

queue-4.4/target-fix-multi-session-dynamic-se_node_acl-double-free-oops.patch
queue-4.4/target-obtain-se_node_acl-acl_kref-during-get_initiator_node_acl.patch