[ 3.5.yuz extended stable ] Patch "iscsit: remove incorrect unlock in" has been added to staging queue

Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski herton.krzesinski at canonical.com
Thu Nov 15 05:48:47 UTC 2012


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    iscsit: remove incorrect unlock in

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.yuz extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.yuz tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Herton

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>From 6342bfa35bf7a7891483adda7b4d8c2e3eb16c8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 08:00:37 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] iscsit: remove incorrect unlock in
 iscsit_build_sendtargets_resp

commit 904753da183566c71211d23c169a80184648c121 upstream.

Fix a potential multiple spin-unlock -> deadlock scenario during the
overflow check within iscsit_build_sendtargets_resp() as found by
sparse static checking.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab at linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
index d3114d1..6d1d906 100644
--- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
+++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
@@ -3269,7 +3269,6 @@ static int iscsit_build_sendtargets_response(struct iscsi_cmd *cmd)
 		len += 1;

 		if ((len + payload_len) > buffer_len) {
-			spin_unlock(&tiqn->tiqn_tpg_lock);
 			end_of_buf = 1;
 			goto eob;
 		}
--
1.7.9.5





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