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Commit 01d4d673 authored by Nicholas Bellinger's avatar Nicholas Bellinger
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target: Fix multi-session dynamic se_node_acl double free OOPs



This patch addresses a long-standing bug with multi-session
(eg: iscsi-target + iser-target) se_node_acl dynamic free
withini transport_deregister_session().

This bug is caused when a storage endpoint is configured with
demo-mode (generate_node_acls = 1 + cache_dynamic_acls = 1)
initiators, and initiator login creates a new dynamic node acl
and attaches two sessions to it.

After that, demo-mode for the storage instance is disabled via
configfs (generate_node_acls = 0 + cache_dynamic_acls = 0) and
the existing dynamic acl is never converted to an explicit ACL.

The end result is dynamic acl resources are released twice when
the sessions are shutdown in transport_deregister_session().

If the storage instance is not changed to disable demo-mode,
or the dynamic acl is converted to an explict ACL, or there
is only a single session associated with the dynamic ACL,
the bug is not triggered.

To address this big, move the release of dynamic se_node_acl
memory into target_complete_nacl() so it's only freed once
when se_node_acl->acl_kref reaches zero.

(Drop unnecessary list_del_init usage - HCH)

Reported-by: default avatarRob Millner <rlm@daterainc.com>
Tested-by: default avatarRob Millner <rlm@daterainc.com>
Cc: Rob Millner <rlm@daterainc.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.1+
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
parent c54eeffb
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