The Linux Kernel Mailing List
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
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(-)

-- 
2.39.0.windows.2


             reply	other threads:[~2026-11-15 10:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 10:40 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] scsi: target: iscsi: don't re-arm Time2Retain on " Daniel Wade

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=cover.1794739041.git.danjwade95@gmail.com \
    --to=danjwade95@gmail.com \
    --cc=krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mkp@kernel.org \
    --cc=mlombard@redhat.com \
    --cc=sujaltuladhar1231@gmail.com \
    --cc=target-devel@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox