From: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanyak@nvidia.com>
To: Hamza Mahfooz <hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com>,
Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>,
Sheng Yang <sheng@yasker.org>,
"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
"target-devel@vger.kernel.org" <target-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
Allen Pais <apais@linux.microsoft.com>,
"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: target: tcm_loop: fix segfault in tcm_loop_tpg_address_show()
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 06:41:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2c70e9bf-e6fb-4443-bfc9-fab448fb2f65@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1762370746-6304-1-git-send-email-hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com>
On 11/5/25 11:25, Hamza Mahfooz wrote:
> If the allocation of tl_hba->sh fails in tcm_loop_driver_probe() and we
> attempt to dereference it in tcm_loop_tpg_address_show() we will get a
> segfault, see below for an example. So, check tl_hba->sh before
> dereferencing it.
>
> Unable to allocate struct scsi_host
> BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000194
> #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
> #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
> PGD 0 P4D 0
> Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
> CPU: 1 PID: 8356 Comm: tokio-runtime-w Not tainted 6.6.104.2-4.azl3 #1
> Hardware name: Microsoft Corporation Virtual Machine/Virtual Machine, BIOS Hyper-V UEFI Release v4.1 09/28/2024
> RIP: 0010:tcm_loop_tpg_address_show+0x2e/0x50 [tcm_loop]
> ...
> Call Trace:
> <TASK>
> configfs_read_iter+0x12d/0x1d0 [configfs]
> vfs_read+0x1b5/0x300
> ksys_read+0x6f/0xf0
> ...
>
> Cc:stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 2628b352c3d4 ("tcm_loop: Show address of tpg in configfs")
> Signed-off-by: Hamza Mahfooz<hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com>
> ---
indeed :-
313 static int tcm_loop_driver_probe(struct device *dev)
314 {
315 struct tcm_loop_hba *tl_hba;
316 struct Scsi_Host *sh;
317 int error, host_prot;
318
319 tl_hba = to_tcm_loop_hba(dev);
320
321 sh = scsi_host_alloc(&tcm_loop_driver_template,
322 sizeof(struct tcm_loop_hba));
323 if (!sh) {
324 pr_err("Unable to allocate struct scsi_host\n");
325 return -ENODEV;
326 }
327 tl_hba->sh = sh;
Looks good.
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
-ck
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-06 6:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-05 19:25 [PATCH] scsi: target: tcm_loop: fix segfault in tcm_loop_tpg_address_show() Hamza Mahfooz
2025-11-06 6:41 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni [this message]
2025-11-06 15:56 ` Allen Pais
2025-11-13 2:47 ` Martin K. Petersen
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