[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "iscsi-target: Fix use-after-free during TPG session shutdown" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Wed Sep 2 00:55:41 UTC 2015


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

    iscsi-target: Fix use-after-free during TPG session shutdown

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt26.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 06fc42aa98b6974cdb54cc2aa46d1fe8263b4e76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab at linux-iscsi.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 00:24:09 -0700
Subject: iscsi-target: Fix use-after-free during TPG session shutdown

commit 417c20a9bdd1e876384127cf096d8ae8b559066c upstream.

This patch fixes a use-after-free bug in iscsit_release_sessions_for_tpg()
where se_portal_group->session_lock was incorrectly released/re-acquired
while walking the active se_portal_group->tpg_sess_list.

The can result in a NULL pointer dereference when iscsit_close_session()
shutdown happens in the normal path asynchronously to this code, causing
a bogus dereference of an already freed list entry to occur.

To address this bug, walk the session list checking for the same state
as before, but move entries to a local list to avoid dropping the lock
while walking the active list.

As before, signal using iscsi_session->session_restatement=1 for those
list entries to be released locally by iscsit_free_session() code.

Reported-by: Sunilkumar Nadumuttlu <sjn at datera.io>
Cc: Sunilkumar Nadumuttlu <sjn at datera.io>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab at linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
index 8da53d7..6d70def 100644
--- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
+++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
@@ -4708,6 +4708,7 @@ int iscsit_release_sessions_for_tpg(struct iscsi_portal_group *tpg, int force)
 	struct iscsi_session *sess;
 	struct se_portal_group *se_tpg = &tpg->tpg_se_tpg;
 	struct se_session *se_sess, *se_sess_tmp;
+	LIST_HEAD(free_list);
 	int session_count = 0;

 	spin_lock_bh(&se_tpg->session_lock);
@@ -4729,14 +4730,17 @@ int iscsit_release_sessions_for_tpg(struct iscsi_portal_group *tpg, int force)
 		}
 		atomic_set(&sess->session_reinstatement, 1);
 		spin_unlock(&sess->conn_lock);
-		spin_unlock_bh(&se_tpg->session_lock);

-		iscsit_free_session(sess);
-		spin_lock_bh(&se_tpg->session_lock);
+		list_move_tail(&se_sess->sess_list, &free_list);
+	}
+	spin_unlock_bh(&se_tpg->session_lock);

+	list_for_each_entry_safe(se_sess, se_sess_tmp, &free_list, sess_list) {
+		sess = (struct iscsi_session *)se_sess->fabric_sess_ptr;
+
+		iscsit_free_session(sess);
 		session_count++;
 	}
-	spin_unlock_bh(&se_tpg->session_lock);

 	pr_debug("Released %d iSCSI Session(s) from Target Portal"
 			" Group: %hu\n", session_count, tpg->tpgt);
--
1.9.1





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