FAILED: patch "[PATCH] nvmet: copy the hostid into the ctrl before creating PR" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree

FAILED: patch "[PATCH] nvmet: copy the hostid into the ctrl before creating PR" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree

[gregkh]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.18-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>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.18.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 5211fed41d7ec90e9ab7239dc4bffffe4d0b2b62
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026100502-portal-companion-f7cd@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.18.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

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

From 5211fed41d7ec90e9ab7239dc4bffffe4d0b2b62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:42:54 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] nvmet: copy the hostid into the ctrl before creating PR
 pc_refs

Commit 6202783184bf ("nvmet: Improve nvmet_alloc_ctrl() interface and
implementation") added a second uuid_copy() of args->hostid near the end
of nvmet_alloc_ctrl(), and commit 7b658153f1b8 ("nvmet: Remove duplicate
uuid_copy") removed the original copy that sat before
nvmet_ctrl_init_pr() instead of the new one.

Since then nvmet_ctrl_init_pr() snapshots ctrl->hostid into the
per-controller per-namespace reservation refs while the uuid_copy()
from the connect data runs later, after the controller is published.
The ctrl is allocated with kzalloc(), so every pc_ref created on this
path stores the nil UUID.

pc_ref->hostid has a single consumer: nvmet_pr_set_ctrl_to_abort()
matches it against the preempted registrant's hostid to kill and drain
the victim's in-flight I/O for Preempt and Abort.  The match can never
hit with the nil UUID, so whenever a namespace with reservations
enabled exists before a host connects, which includes every reconnect,
Preempt and Abort silently degrades into a plain Preempt: the
preempting host sees success while the victim's in-flight I/O is still
in the air.

Copy the hostid where the rest of the connect data is consumed, before
the controller is published and before nvmet_ctrl_init_pr() takes its
snapshot.

Fixes: 7b658153f1b8 ("nvmet: Remove duplicate uuid_copy")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Nilay Shroff <nilay@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/core.c b/drivers/nvme/target/core.c
index 43871a8f56ca..8c8c8627871f 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/core.c
@@ -1648,6 +1648,8 @@ struct nvmet_ctrl *nvmet_alloc_ctrl(struct nvmet_alloc_ctrl_args *args)
 	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&ctrl->ka_work, nvmet_keep_alive_timer);
 
 	memcpy(ctrl->hostnqn, args->hostnqn, NVMF_NQN_SIZE);
+	if (args->hostid)
+		uuid_copy(&ctrl->hostid, args->hostid);
 
 	kref_init(&ctrl->ref);
 	ctrl->subsys = subsys;
@@ -1706,9 +1708,6 @@ struct nvmet_ctrl *nvmet_alloc_ctrl(struct nvmet_alloc_ctrl_args *args)
 
 	nvmet_start_keep_alive_timer(ctrl);
 
-	if (args->hostid)
-		uuid_copy(&ctrl->hostid, args->hostid);
-
 	dhchap_status = nvmet_setup_auth(ctrl, args->sq, false);
 	if (dhchap_status) {
 		pr_err("Failed to setup authentication, dhchap status %u\n",

[PATCH 6.18.y 1/2] nvmet-tcp: Don't error if TLS is enabed on a reset

[Sasha Levin]

From: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>

[ Upstream commit ecf4d2d883515850ba838df2537ff1c32d0c4217 ]

If the host sends a AUTH_Negotiate Message on the admin queue with
REPLACETLSPSK set then we expect and require a TLS connection and
shouldn't report an error if TLS is enabled.

This change only enforces the nvmet_queue_tls_keyid() check if we aren't
resetting the negotiation.

Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Wilfred Mallawa <wilfred.mallawa@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Stable-dep-of: 5211fed41d7e ("nvmet: copy the hostid into the ctrl before creating PR pc_refs")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/nvme/target/auth.c             | 4 ++--
 drivers/nvme/target/core.c             | 2 +-
 drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd-auth.c | 3 ++-
 drivers/nvme/target/nvmet.h            | 4 ++--
 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/auth.c b/drivers/nvme/target/auth.c
index 95e14f3f03d78..8230a0563616b 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/auth.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/auth.c
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ int nvmet_setup_dhgroup(struct nvmet_ctrl *ctrl, u8 dhgroup_id)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-u8 nvmet_setup_auth(struct nvmet_ctrl *ctrl, struct nvmet_sq *sq)
+u8 nvmet_setup_auth(struct nvmet_ctrl *ctrl, struct nvmet_sq *sq, bool reset)
 {
 	int ret = 0;
 	struct nvmet_host_link *p;
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ u8 nvmet_setup_auth(struct nvmet_ctrl *ctrl, struct nvmet_sq *sq)
 		goto out_unlock;
 	}
 
-	if (nvmet_queue_tls_keyid(sq)) {
+	if (!reset && nvmet_queue_tls_keyid(sq)) {
 		pr_debug("host %s tls enabled\n", ctrl->hostnqn);
 		goto out_unlock;
 	}
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/core.c b/drivers/nvme/target/core.c
index 1f145b88120ba..1b18523cddb6a 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/core.c
@@ -1692,7 +1692,7 @@ struct nvmet_ctrl *nvmet_alloc_ctrl(struct nvmet_alloc_ctrl_args *args)
 	if (args->hostid)
 		uuid_copy(&ctrl->hostid, args->hostid);
 
-	dhchap_status = nvmet_setup_auth(ctrl, args->sq);
+	dhchap_status = nvmet_setup_auth(ctrl, args->sq, false);
 	if (dhchap_status) {
 		pr_err("Failed to setup authentication, dhchap status %u\n",
 		       dhchap_status);
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd-auth.c b/drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd-auth.c
index 8f19c0737104d..35bf1a2357d49 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd-auth.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd-auth.c
@@ -310,7 +310,8 @@ void nvmet_execute_auth_send(struct nvmet_req *req)
 			pr_debug("%s: ctrl %d qid %d reset negotiation\n",
 				 __func__, ctrl->cntlid, req->sq->qid);
 			if (!req->sq->qid) {
-				dhchap_status = nvmet_setup_auth(ctrl, req->sq);
+				dhchap_status = nvmet_setup_auth(ctrl, req->sq,
+								 true);
 				if (dhchap_status) {
 					pr_err("ctrl %d qid 0 failed to setup re-authentication\n",
 					       ctrl->cntlid);
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/nvmet.h b/drivers/nvme/target/nvmet.h
index f2ea7993eabc7..3e8a43df57a67 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/nvmet.h
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/nvmet.h
@@ -897,7 +897,7 @@ void nvmet_execute_auth_receive(struct nvmet_req *req);
 int nvmet_auth_set_key(struct nvmet_host *host, const char *secret,
 		       bool set_ctrl);
 int nvmet_auth_set_host_hash(struct nvmet_host *host, const char *hash);
-u8 nvmet_setup_auth(struct nvmet_ctrl *ctrl, struct nvmet_sq *sq);
+u8 nvmet_setup_auth(struct nvmet_ctrl *ctrl, struct nvmet_sq *sq, bool reset);
 void nvmet_auth_sq_init(struct nvmet_sq *sq);
 void nvmet_destroy_auth(struct nvmet_ctrl *ctrl);
 void nvmet_auth_sq_free(struct nvmet_sq *sq);
@@ -919,7 +919,7 @@ int nvmet_auth_ctrl_sesskey(struct nvmet_req *req,
 void nvmet_auth_insert_psk(struct nvmet_sq *sq);
 #else
 static inline u8 nvmet_setup_auth(struct nvmet_ctrl *ctrl,
-				  struct nvmet_sq *sq)
+				  struct nvmet_sq *sq, bool reset)
 {
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.53.0

[PATCH 6.18.y 2/2] nvmet: copy the hostid into the ctrl before creating PR pc_refs

[Sasha Levin]

From: Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com>

[ Upstream commit 5211fed41d7ec90e9ab7239dc4bffffe4d0b2b62 ]

Commit 6202783184bf ("nvmet: Improve nvmet_alloc_ctrl() interface and
implementation") added a second uuid_copy() of args->hostid near the end
of nvmet_alloc_ctrl(), and commit 7b658153f1b8 ("nvmet: Remove duplicate
uuid_copy") removed the original copy that sat before
nvmet_ctrl_init_pr() instead of the new one.

Since then nvmet_ctrl_init_pr() snapshots ctrl->hostid into the
per-controller per-namespace reservation refs while the uuid_copy()
from the connect data runs later, after the controller is published.
The ctrl is allocated with kzalloc(), so every pc_ref created on this
path stores the nil UUID.

pc_ref->hostid has a single consumer: nvmet_pr_set_ctrl_to_abort()
matches it against the preempted registrant's hostid to kill and drain
the victim's in-flight I/O for Preempt and Abort.  The match can never
hit with the nil UUID, so whenever a namespace with reservations
enabled exists before a host connects, which includes every reconnect,
Preempt and Abort silently degrades into a plain Preempt: the
preempting host sees success while the victim's in-flight I/O is still
in the air.

Copy the hostid where the rest of the connect data is consumed, before
the controller is published and before nvmet_ctrl_init_pr() takes its
snapshot.

Fixes: 7b658153f1b8 ("nvmet: Remove duplicate uuid_copy")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Nilay Shroff <nilay@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/nvme/target/core.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/core.c b/drivers/nvme/target/core.c
index 1b18523cddb6a..3310d0b44ccff 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/core.c
@@ -1633,6 +1633,8 @@ struct nvmet_ctrl *nvmet_alloc_ctrl(struct nvmet_alloc_ctrl_args *args)
 
 	memcpy(ctrl->subsysnqn, args->subsysnqn, NVMF_NQN_SIZE);
 	memcpy(ctrl->hostnqn, args->hostnqn, NVMF_NQN_SIZE);
+	if (args->hostid)
+		uuid_copy(&ctrl->hostid, args->hostid);
 
 	kref_init(&ctrl->ref);
 	ctrl->subsys = subsys;
@@ -1689,9 +1691,6 @@ struct nvmet_ctrl *nvmet_alloc_ctrl(struct nvmet_alloc_ctrl_args *args)
 	nvmet_debugfs_ctrl_setup(ctrl);
 	mutex_unlock(&subsys->lock);
 
-	if (args->hostid)
-		uuid_copy(&ctrl->hostid, args->hostid);
-
 	dhchap_status = nvmet_setup_auth(ctrl, args->sq, false);
 	if (dhchap_status) {
 		pr_err("Failed to setup authentication, dhchap status %u\n",
-- 
2.53.0