alistair23-linux/drivers/infiniband
Nicholas Bellinger fce50a2fa4 iser-target: Avoid isert_conn->cm_id dereference in isert_login_recv_done
This patch fixes a NULL pointer dereference in isert_login_recv_done()
of isert_conn->cm_id due to isert_cma_handler() -> isert_connect_error()
resetting isert_conn->cm_id = NULL during a failed login attempt.

As per Sagi, we will always see the completion of all recv wrs posted
on the qp (given that we assigned a ->done handler), this is a FLUSH
error completion, we just don't get to verify that because we deref
NULL before.

The issue here, was the assumption that dereferencing the connection
cm_id is always safe, which is not true since:

    commit 4a579da258
    Author: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
    Date:   Sun Mar 29 15:52:04 2015 +0300

         iser-target: Fix possible deadlock in RDMA_CM connection error

As I see it, we have a direct reference to the isert_device from
isert_conn which is the one-liner fix that we actually need like
we do in isert_rdma_read_done() and isert_rdma_write_done().

Reported-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.10+
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2017-07-06 23:11:35 -07:00
..
core char/misc patches for 4.12-rc1 2017-05-04 19:15:35 -07:00
hw IOMMU Updates for Linux v4.12 2017-05-09 15:15:47 -07:00
sw rxe: expose num_possible_cpus() cnum_comp_vectors 2017-05-04 19:33:02 -04:00
ulp iser-target: Avoid isert_conn->cm_id dereference in isert_login_recv_done 2017-07-06 23:11:35 -07:00
Kconfig IB/opa-vnic: Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC) netdev 2017-04-20 12:01:38 -04:00
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