From: Daniel Wade <danjwade95@gmail.com>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <mkp@kernel.org>
Cc: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@redhat.com>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>,
Sujal Tuladhar <sujaltuladhar1231@gmail.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, target-devel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/3] scsi: target: iscsi: fix session use-after-free on non-leading login
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2026 21:10:04 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cover.1794739041.git.danjwade95@gmail.com> (raw)
A non-leading login can attach a connection to a session that
iscsit_close_connection() has already committed to freeing. The
connection ends up in full feature phase with conn->sess dangling and
its NOP-In timer walking freed memory. The same window leaves an armed
Time2Retain timer on a freed session when the login fails instead.
The bug dates to the driver's original merge in v3.1, but the fix keys
off ->session_close, which arrived in v5.7 with commit 57c46e9f33da
("scsi: target: fix hang when multiple threads try to destroy the same
iscsi session"), so a backport further back needs adjusting.
Tested with KASAN and lockdep on mainline against a target with
authentication=0 and one explicit ACL. Compile tested on x86_64.
A reproducer is available on request.
v2:
- 2/3: re-test every condition iscsi_login_non_zero_tsih_s2() tests, not
just ->session_close. The Time2Retain timeout and the multi connection
ERL=0 path both reach iscsit_close_session() without setting it.
- 2/3: publish conn_state inside the attach critical sections. Checking
after it was already LOGGED_IN let iscsi_target_tx_thread() enter
iscsit_close_connection() and wait on a conn_usage_count that the
refusal path then deadlocked against with kthread_stop().
- Both were reported by Sashiko AI review on v1.
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-scsi/cover.1794732723.git.danjwade95@gmail.com/
Daniel Wade (3):
scsi: target: iscsi: factor out iscsit_stop_kthreads()
scsi: target: iscsi: don't attach a connection to a closing session
scsi: target: iscsi: don't re-arm Time2Retain on a closing session
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c | 6 ++
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.c | 81 +++++++++++++++++++++--
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.h | 1 +
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_nego.c | 17 +----
4 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
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2.39.0.windows.2
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2026-11-15 10:40 Daniel Wade [this message]
2026-11-15 10:40 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] scsi: target: iscsi: factor out iscsit_stop_kthreads() Daniel Wade
2026-11-15 10:40 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] scsi: target: iscsi: don't attach a connection to a closing session Daniel Wade
2026-11-15 10:59 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-15 10:40 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] scsi: target: iscsi: don't re-arm Time2Retain on " Daniel Wade
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