FAILED: patch "[PATCH] iser-target: Avoid isert_conn->cm_id dereference in" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

FAILED: patch "[PATCH] iser-target: Avoid isert_conn->cm_id dereference in" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From fce50a2fa4e9c6e103915c351b6d4a98661341d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 22:21:31 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] iser-target: Avoid isert_conn->cm_id dereference in
 isert_login_recv_done

This patch fixes a NULL pointer dereference in isert_login_recv_done()
of isert_conn->cm_id due to isert_cma_handler() -> isert_connect_error()
resetting isert_conn->cm_id = NULL during a failed login attempt.

As per Sagi, we will always see the completion of all recv wrs posted
on the qp (given that we assigned a ->done handler), this is a FLUSH
error completion, we just don't get to verify that because we deref
NULL before.

The issue here, was the assumption that dereferencing the connection
cm_id is always safe, which is not true since:

    commit 4a579da2586bd3b79b025947ea24ede2bbfede62
    Author: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
    Date:   Sun Mar 29 15:52:04 2015 +0300

         iser-target: Fix possible deadlock in RDMA_CM connection error

As I see it, we have a direct reference to the isert_device from
isert_conn which is the one-liner fix that we actually need like
we do in isert_rdma_read_done() and isert_rdma_write_done().

Reported-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.10+
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert/ib_isert.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert/ib_isert.c
index fcbed35e95a8..0e662656ef42 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert/ib_isert.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert/ib_isert.c
@@ -1452,7 +1452,7 @@ static void
 isert_login_recv_done(struct ib_cq *cq, struct ib_wc *wc)
 {
 	struct isert_conn *isert_conn = wc->qp->qp_context;
-	struct ib_device *ib_dev = isert_conn->cm_id->device;
+	struct ib_device *ib_dev = isert_conn->device->ib_device;
 
 	if (unlikely(wc->status != IB_WC_SUCCESS)) {
 		isert_print_wc(wc, "login recv");