From: Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com>
To: "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
Hamza Mahfooz <hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>,
Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@linux.alibaba.com>,
oliver.yang@linux.alibaba.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
target-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH INNER] scsi: target: tcm_loop: Fix NULL ptr dereference
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:59:37 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260423015937.85317-1-kanie@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
The TCM_LOOP LUN creation process calls device_register() to create the
device, which in turn invokes tcm_loop_driver_probe() registered with
the TCM_LOOP bus to create and register the scsi_host.
However, if the scsi_host memory allocation fails or scsi_add_host()
fails, the device_register() process still returns success.
Subsequently, when the user binds the LUN to a specific backend device,
it accesses the NULL or freed scsi_host.
Crash Call Trace:
RIP: 0010:scsi_is_host_device+0x7/0x20
scsi_alloc_target+0x32/0x2c0
__scsi_add_device+0x41/0xf0
scsi_add_device+0xd/0x30
tcm_loop_port_link+0x25/0x50 [tcm_loop]
target_fabric_port_link+0x9c/0xb0 [target_core_mod]
...
This issue is fixed by:
1. Setting the tcm_loop_hba's scsi_host to NULL, if
scsi_add_host() fails.
2. Checking the tcm_loop_hba's scsi_host after device_register().
Fixes: 3703b2c5d041 ("[SCSI] tcm_loop: Add multi-fabric Linux/SCSI LLD fabric module")
Signed-off-by: Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com>
---
drivers/target/loopback/tcm_loop.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/target/loopback/tcm_loop.c b/drivers/target/loopback/tcm_loop.c
index 528883d989b8..79ea34960199 100644
--- a/drivers/target/loopback/tcm_loop.c
+++ b/drivers/target/loopback/tcm_loop.c
@@ -393,6 +393,7 @@ static int tcm_loop_driver_probe(struct device *dev)
if (error) {
pr_err("%s: scsi_add_host failed\n", __func__);
scsi_host_put(sh);
+ tl_hba->sh = NULL;
return -ENODEV;
}
return 0;
@@ -436,6 +437,9 @@ static int tcm_loop_setup_hba_bus(struct tcm_loop_hba *tl_hba, int tcm_loop_host
return -ENODEV;
}
+ if (!tl_hba->sh)
+ return -ENODEV;
+
return 0;
}
--
2.32.0.3.g01195cf9f
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