Patch "iscsi-target: Fix potential dead-lock during node acl delete" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    iscsi-target: Fix potential dead-lock during node acl delete

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     iscsi-target-fix-potential-dead-lock-during-node-acl-delete.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 26a99c19f810b2593410899a5b304b21b47428a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 16:15:27 -0800
Subject: iscsi-target: Fix potential dead-lock during node acl delete

From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

commit 26a99c19f810b2593410899a5b304b21b47428a6 upstream.

This patch is a iscsi-target specific bug-fix for a dead-lock
that can occur during explicit struct se_node_acl->acl_group
se_session deletion via configfs rmdir(2), when iscsi-target
time2retain timer is still active.

It changes iscsi-target to obtain se_portal_group->session_lock
internally using spin_in_locked() to check for the specific
se_node_acl configfs shutdown rmdir(2) case.

Note this patch is intended for stable, and the subsequent
v4.5-rc patch converts target_core_tpg.c to use proper
se_sess->sess_kref reference counting for both se_node_acl
deletion + se_node_acl->queue_depth se_session restart.

Reported-by:: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_configfs.c |   16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_configfs.c
+++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_configfs.c
@@ -1593,7 +1593,8 @@ static int lio_tpg_check_prot_fabric_onl
 }
 
 /*
- * Called with spin_lock_bh(struct se_portal_group->session_lock) held..
+ * Called with spin_lock_irq(struct se_portal_group->session_lock) held
+ * or not held.
  *
  * Also, this function calls iscsit_inc_session_usage_count() on the
  * struct iscsi_session in question.
@@ -1601,19 +1602,32 @@ static int lio_tpg_check_prot_fabric_onl
 static int lio_tpg_shutdown_session(struct se_session *se_sess)
 {
 	struct iscsi_session *sess = se_sess->fabric_sess_ptr;
+	struct se_portal_group *se_tpg = se_sess->se_tpg;
+	bool local_lock = false;
+
+	if (!spin_is_locked(&se_tpg->session_lock)) {
+		spin_lock_irq(&se_tpg->session_lock);
+		local_lock = true;
+	}
 
 	spin_lock(&sess->conn_lock);
 	if (atomic_read(&sess->session_fall_back_to_erl0) ||
 	    atomic_read(&sess->session_logout) ||
 	    (sess->time2retain_timer_flags & ISCSI_TF_EXPIRED)) {
 		spin_unlock(&sess->conn_lock);
+		if (local_lock)
+			spin_unlock_irq(&sess->conn_lock);
 		return 0;
 	}
 	atomic_set(&sess->session_reinstatement, 1);
 	spin_unlock(&sess->conn_lock);
 
 	iscsit_stop_time2retain_timer(sess);
+	spin_unlock_irq(&se_tpg->session_lock);
+
 	iscsit_stop_session(sess, 1, 1);
+	if (!local_lock)
+		spin_lock_irq(&se_tpg->session_lock);
 
 	return 1;
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nab@linux-iscsi.org are

queue-4.4/iscsi-target-fix-potential-dead-lock-during-node-acl-delete.patch