Patch "iscsi-target: Fix early sk_data_ready LOGIN_FLAGS_READY race" 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 early sk_data_ready LOGIN_FLAGS_READY race

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-early-sk_data_ready-login_flags_ready-race.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 8f0dfb3d8b1120c61f6e2cc3729290db10772b2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 18:15:46 -0800
Subject: iscsi-target: Fix early sk_data_ready LOGIN_FLAGS_READY race

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

commit 8f0dfb3d8b1120c61f6e2cc3729290db10772b2d upstream.

There is a iscsi-target/tcp login race in LOGIN_FLAGS_READY
state assignment that can result in frequent errors during
iscsi discovery:

      "iSCSI Login negotiation failed."

To address this bug, move the initial LOGIN_FLAGS_READY
assignment ahead of iscsi_target_do_login() when handling
the initial iscsi_target_start_negotiation() request PDU
during connection login.

As iscsi_target_do_login_rx() work_struct callback is
clearing LOGIN_FLAGS_READ_ACTIVE after subsequent calls
to iscsi_target_do_login(), the early sk_data_ready
ahead of the first iscsi_target_do_login() expects
LOGIN_FLAGS_READY to also be set for the initial
login request PDU.

As reported by Maged, this was first obsered using an
MSFT initiator running across multiple VMWare host
virtual machines with iscsi-target/tcp.

Reported-by: Maged Mokhtar <mmokhtar@binarykinetics.com>
Tested-by: Maged Mokhtar <mmokhtar@binarykinetics.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


---
 drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_nego.c |   18 +++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_nego.c
+++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_nego.c
@@ -1248,16 +1248,16 @@ int iscsi_target_start_negotiation(
 {
 	int ret;
 
-	ret = iscsi_target_do_login(conn, login);
-	if (!ret) {
-		if (conn->sock) {
-			struct sock *sk = conn->sock->sk;
+       if (conn->sock) {
+               struct sock *sk = conn->sock->sk;
 
-			write_lock_bh(&sk->sk_callback_lock);
-			set_bit(LOGIN_FLAGS_READY, &conn->login_flags);
-			write_unlock_bh(&sk->sk_callback_lock);
-		}
-	} else if (ret < 0) {
+               write_lock_bh(&sk->sk_callback_lock);
+               set_bit(LOGIN_FLAGS_READY, &conn->login_flags);
+               write_unlock_bh(&sk->sk_callback_lock);
+       }
+
+       ret = iscsi_target_do_login(conn, login);
+       if (ret < 0) {
 		cancel_delayed_work_sync(&conn->login_work);
 		cancel_delayed_work_sync(&conn->login_cleanup_work);
 		iscsi_target_restore_sock_callbacks(conn);


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

queue-4.4/iscsi-target-fix-delayed-logout-processing-greater-than-seconds_for_logout_comp.patch
queue-4.4/iscsi-target-always-wait-for-kthread_should_stop-before-kthread-exit.patch
queue-4.4/iscsi-target-fix-early-sk_data_ready-login_flags_ready-race.patch
queue-4.4/iscsi-target-fix-initial-login-pdu-asynchronous-socket-close-oops.patch
queue-4.4/iser-target-avoid-isert_conn-cm_id-dereference-in-isert_login_recv_done.patch
queue-4.4/target-avoid-mappedlun-symlink-creation-during-lun-shutdown.patch