Re: [PATCH-v3.10.y] iscsi-target: Fix iscsit_start_kthreads failure OOPs

[Greg-KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 08:12:10PM +0000, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
> 
> This patch fixes a regression introduced with the following commit
> in v4.0-rc1 code, where a iscsit_start_kthreads() failure triggers
> a NULL pointer dereference OOPs:
> 
>     commit 88dcd2dab5c23b1c9cfc396246d8f476c872f0ca
>     Author: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
>     Date:   Thu Feb 26 22:19:15 2015 -0800
> 
>         iscsi-target: Convert iscsi_thread_set usage to kthread.h
> 
> To address this bug, move iscsit_start_kthreads() immediately
> preceeding the transmit of last login response, before signaling
> a successful transition into full-feature-phase within existing
> iscsi_target_do_tx_login_io() logic.
> 
> This ensures that no target-side resource allocation failures can
> occur after the final login response has been successfully sent.
> 
> Also, it adds a iscsi_conn->rx_login_comp to allow the RX thread
> to sleep to prevent other socket related failures until the final
> iscsi_post_login_handler() call is able to complete.
> 
>     Issue DAT-3610
> 
> Change-Id: Ie41cd45dba698d4984ca711a56e4ffd3bb32ca6d

What is that here for?  

I need to know the git commit id in Linus's tree, I guess I have to go
dig it out now...