[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "iscsi-target: Fix ABORT_TASK + connection reset iscsi_queue_req memory leak" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Jun 26 10:36:51 UTC 2014


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

    iscsi-target: Fix ABORT_TASK + connection reset iscsi_queue_req memory leak

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.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 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 17d18beefdce6287ed09b38445d3335ca52e01e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab at linux-iscsi.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 04:03:54 +0000
Subject: iscsi-target: Fix ABORT_TASK + connection reset iscsi_queue_req
 memory leak

commit bbc050488525e1ab1194c27355f63c66814385b8 upstream.

This patch fixes a iscsi_queue_req memory leak when ABORT_TASK response
has been queued by TFO->queue_tm_rsp() -> lio_queue_tm_rsp() after a
long standing I/O completes, but the connection has already reset and
waiting for cleanup to complete in iscsit_release_commands_from_conn()
-> transport_generic_free_cmd() -> transport_wait_for_tasks() code.

It moves iscsit_free_queue_reqs_for_conn() after the per-connection command
list has been released, so that the associated se_cmd tag can be completed +
released by target-core before freeing any remaining iscsi_queue_req memory
for the connection generated by lio_queue_tm_rsp().

Cc: Thomas Glanzmann <thomas at glanzmann.de>
Cc: Charalampos Pournaris <charpour at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab at linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
index 2681183abca6..a2a650733df2 100644
--- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
+++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
@@ -4217,8 +4217,6 @@ int iscsit_close_connection(
 	if (conn->conn_transport->iscsit_wait_conn)
 		conn->conn_transport->iscsit_wait_conn(conn);

-	iscsit_free_queue_reqs_for_conn(conn);
-
 	/*
 	 * During Connection recovery drop unacknowledged out of order
 	 * commands for this connection, and prepare the other commands
@@ -4235,6 +4233,7 @@ int iscsit_close_connection(
 		iscsit_clear_ooo_cmdsns_for_conn(conn);
 		iscsit_release_commands_from_conn(conn);
 	}
+	iscsit_free_queue_reqs_for_conn(conn);

 	/*
 	 * Handle decrementing session or connection usage count if
--
1.9.1





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