Patch "iscsi-target: Always wait for kthread_should_stop() before kthread exit" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    iscsi-target: Always wait for kthread_should_stop() before kthread exit

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:
     iscsi-target-always-wait-for-kthread_should_stop-before-kthread-exit.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@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 5e0cf5e6c43b9e19fc0284f69e5cd2b4a47523b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiang Yi <jiangyilism@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 17:57:55 +0800
Subject: iscsi-target: Always wait for kthread_should_stop() before kthread exit

From: Jiang Yi <jiangyilism@gmail.com>

commit 5e0cf5e6c43b9e19fc0284f69e5cd2b4a47523b0 upstream.

There are three timing problems in the kthread usages of iscsi_target_mod:

 - np_thread of struct iscsi_np
 - rx_thread and tx_thread of struct iscsi_conn

In iscsit_close_connection(), it calls

 send_sig(SIGINT, conn->tx_thread, 1);
 kthread_stop(conn->tx_thread);

In conn->tx_thread, which is iscsi_target_tx_thread(), when it receive
SIGINT the kthread will exit without checking the return value of
kthread_should_stop().

So if iscsi_target_tx_thread() exit right between send_sig(SIGINT...)
and kthread_stop(...), the kthread_stop() will try to stop an already
stopped kthread.

This is invalid according to the documentation of kthread_stop().

(Fix -ECONNRESET logout handling in iscsi_target_tx_thread and
 early iscsi_target_rx_thread failure case - nab)

Signed-off-by: Jiang Yi <jiangyilism@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c       |   28 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_erl0.c  |    6 +++++-
 drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_erl0.h  |    2 +-
 drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.c |    4 ++++
 4 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
+++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
@@ -3931,6 +3931,8 @@ int iscsi_target_tx_thread(void *arg)
 {
 	int ret = 0;
 	struct iscsi_conn *conn = arg;
+	bool conn_freed = false;
+
 	/*
 	 * Allow ourselves to be interrupted by SIGINT so that a
 	 * connection recovery / failure event can be triggered externally.
@@ -3956,12 +3958,14 @@ get_immediate:
 			goto transport_err;
 
 		ret = iscsit_handle_response_queue(conn);
-		if (ret == 1)
+		if (ret == 1) {
 			goto get_immediate;
-		else if (ret == -ECONNRESET)
+		} else if (ret == -ECONNRESET) {
+			conn_freed = true;
 			goto out;
-		else if (ret < 0)
+		} else if (ret < 0) {
 			goto transport_err;
+		}
 	}
 
 transport_err:
@@ -3971,8 +3975,13 @@ transport_err:
 	 * responsible for cleaning up the early connection failure.
 	 */
 	if (conn->conn_state != TARG_CONN_STATE_IN_LOGIN)
-		iscsit_take_action_for_connection_exit(conn);
+		iscsit_take_action_for_connection_exit(conn, &conn_freed);
 out:
+	if (!conn_freed) {
+		while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
+			msleep(100);
+		}
+	}
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -4073,6 +4082,7 @@ int iscsi_target_rx_thread(void *arg)
 	u32 checksum = 0, digest = 0;
 	struct iscsi_conn *conn = arg;
 	struct kvec iov;
+	bool conn_freed = false;
 	/*
 	 * Allow ourselves to be interrupted by SIGINT so that a
 	 * connection recovery / failure event can be triggered externally.
@@ -4084,7 +4094,7 @@ int iscsi_target_rx_thread(void *arg)
 	 */
 	rc = wait_for_completion_interruptible(&conn->rx_login_comp);
 	if (rc < 0 || iscsi_target_check_conn_state(conn))
-		return 0;
+		goto out;
 
 	if (conn->conn_transport->transport_type == ISCSI_INFINIBAND) {
 		struct completion comp;
@@ -4169,7 +4179,13 @@ int iscsi_target_rx_thread(void *arg)
 transport_err:
 	if (!signal_pending(current))
 		atomic_set(&conn->transport_failed, 1);
-	iscsit_take_action_for_connection_exit(conn);
+	iscsit_take_action_for_connection_exit(conn, &conn_freed);
+out:
+	if (!conn_freed) {
+		while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
+			msleep(100);
+		}
+	}
 	return 0;
 }
 
--- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_erl0.c
+++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_erl0.c
@@ -931,8 +931,10 @@ static void iscsit_handle_connection_cle
 	}
 }
 
-void iscsit_take_action_for_connection_exit(struct iscsi_conn *conn)
+void iscsit_take_action_for_connection_exit(struct iscsi_conn *conn, bool *conn_freed)
 {
+	*conn_freed = false;
+
 	spin_lock_bh(&conn->state_lock);
 	if (atomic_read(&conn->connection_exit)) {
 		spin_unlock_bh(&conn->state_lock);
@@ -943,6 +945,7 @@ void iscsit_take_action_for_connection_e
 	if (conn->conn_state == TARG_CONN_STATE_IN_LOGOUT) {
 		spin_unlock_bh(&conn->state_lock);
 		iscsit_close_connection(conn);
+		*conn_freed = true;
 		return;
 	}
 
@@ -956,6 +959,7 @@ void iscsit_take_action_for_connection_e
 	spin_unlock_bh(&conn->state_lock);
 
 	iscsit_handle_connection_cleanup(conn);
+	*conn_freed = true;
 }
 
 /*
--- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_erl0.h
+++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_erl0.h
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ extern int iscsit_stop_time2retain_timer
 extern void iscsit_connection_reinstatement_rcfr(struct iscsi_conn *);
 extern void iscsit_cause_connection_reinstatement(struct iscsi_conn *, int);
 extern void iscsit_fall_back_to_erl0(struct iscsi_session *);
-extern void iscsit_take_action_for_connection_exit(struct iscsi_conn *);
+extern void iscsit_take_action_for_connection_exit(struct iscsi_conn *, bool *);
 extern int iscsit_recover_from_unknown_opcode(struct iscsi_conn *);
 
 #endif   /*** ISCSI_TARGET_ERL0_H ***/
--- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.c
+++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.c
@@ -1492,5 +1492,9 @@ int iscsi_target_login_thread(void *arg)
 			break;
 	}
 
+	while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
+		msleep(100);
+	}
+
 	return 0;
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jiangyilism@gmail.com are

queue-3.18/iscsi-target-always-wait-for-kthread_should_stop-before-kthread-exit.patch