iscsi-target: Fix iscsit_start_kthreads failure OOPs

This patch fixes a regression introduced with the following commit
in v4.0-rc1 code, where a iscsit_start_kthreads() failure triggers
a NULL pointer dereference OOPs:

    commit 88dcd2dab5c23b1c9cfc396246d8f476c872f0ca
    Author: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
    Date:   Thu Feb 26 22:19:15 2015 -0800

        iscsi-target: Convert iscsi_thread_set usage to kthread.h

To address this bug, move iscsit_start_kthreads() immediately
preceeding the transmit of last login response, before signaling
a successful transition into full-feature-phase within existing
iscsi_target_do_tx_login_io() logic.

This ensures that no target-side resource allocation failures can
occur after the final login response has been successfully sent.

Also, it adds a iscsi_conn->rx_login_comp to allow the RX thread
to sleep to prevent other socket related failures until the final
iscsi_post_login_handler() call is able to complete.

Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.10+
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 28 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.c b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.c
index 3d0fe4ff5590..7e8f65e5448f 100644
--- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.c
+++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.c
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ static struct iscsi_login *iscsi_login_init_conn(struct iscsi_conn *conn)
 	init_completion(&conn->conn_logout_comp);
 	init_completion(&conn->rx_half_close_comp);
 	init_completion(&conn->tx_half_close_comp);
+	init_completion(&conn->rx_login_comp);
 	spin_lock_init(&conn->cmd_lock);
 	spin_lock_init(&conn->conn_usage_lock);
 	spin_lock_init(&conn->immed_queue_lock);
@@ -644,7 +645,7 @@ static void iscsi_post_login_start_timers(struct iscsi_conn *conn)
 		iscsit_start_nopin_timer(conn);
 }
 
-static int iscsit_start_kthreads(struct iscsi_conn *conn)
+int iscsit_start_kthreads(struct iscsi_conn *conn)
 {
 	int ret = 0;
 
@@ -679,6 +680,7 @@ static int iscsit_start_kthreads(struct iscsi_conn *conn)
 
 	return 0;
 out_tx:
+	send_sig(SIGINT, conn->tx_thread, 1);
 	kthread_stop(conn->tx_thread);
 	conn->tx_thread_active = false;
 out_bitmap:
@@ -689,7 +691,7 @@ out_bitmap:
 	return ret;
 }
 
-int iscsi_post_login_handler(
+void iscsi_post_login_handler(
 	struct iscsi_np *np,
 	struct iscsi_conn *conn,
 	u8 zero_tsih)
@@ -699,7 +701,6 @@ int iscsi_post_login_handler(
 	struct se_session *se_sess = sess->se_sess;
 	struct iscsi_portal_group *tpg = sess->tpg;
 	struct se_portal_group *se_tpg = &tpg->tpg_se_tpg;
-	int rc;
 
 	iscsit_inc_conn_usage_count(conn);
 
@@ -739,10 +740,6 @@ int iscsi_post_login_handler(
 			sess->sess_ops->InitiatorName);
 		spin_unlock_bh(&sess->conn_lock);
 
-		rc = iscsit_start_kthreads(conn);
-		if (rc)
-			return rc;
-
 		iscsi_post_login_start_timers(conn);
 		/*
 		 * Determine CPU mask to ensure connection's RX and TX kthreads
@@ -751,15 +748,20 @@ int iscsi_post_login_handler(
 		iscsit_thread_get_cpumask(conn);
 		conn->conn_rx_reset_cpumask = 1;
 		conn->conn_tx_reset_cpumask = 1;
-
+		/*
+		 * Wakeup the sleeping iscsi_target_rx_thread() now that
+		 * iscsi_conn is in TARG_CONN_STATE_LOGGED_IN state.
+		 */
+		complete(&conn->rx_login_comp);
 		iscsit_dec_conn_usage_count(conn);
+
 		if (stop_timer) {
 			spin_lock_bh(&se_tpg->session_lock);
 			iscsit_stop_time2retain_timer(sess);
 			spin_unlock_bh(&se_tpg->session_lock);
 		}
 		iscsit_dec_session_usage_count(sess);
-		return 0;
+		return;
 	}
 
 	iscsi_set_session_parameters(sess->sess_ops, conn->param_list, 1);
@@ -800,10 +802,6 @@ int iscsi_post_login_handler(
 		" iSCSI Target Portal Group: %hu\n", tpg->nsessions, tpg->tpgt);
 	spin_unlock_bh(&se_tpg->session_lock);
 
-	rc = iscsit_start_kthreads(conn);
-	if (rc)
-		return rc;
-
 	iscsi_post_login_start_timers(conn);
 	/*
 	 * Determine CPU mask to ensure connection's RX and TX kthreads
@@ -812,10 +810,12 @@ int iscsi_post_login_handler(
 	iscsit_thread_get_cpumask(conn);
 	conn->conn_rx_reset_cpumask = 1;
 	conn->conn_tx_reset_cpumask = 1;
-
+	/*
+	 * Wakeup the sleeping iscsi_target_rx_thread() now that
+	 * iscsi_conn is in TARG_CONN_STATE_LOGGED_IN state.
+	 */
+	complete(&conn->rx_login_comp);
 	iscsit_dec_conn_usage_count(conn);
-
-	return 0;
 }
 
 static void iscsi_handle_login_thread_timeout(unsigned long data)
@@ -1380,23 +1380,12 @@ static int __iscsi_target_login_thread(struct iscsi_np *np)
 	if (ret < 0)
 		goto new_sess_out;
 
-	if (!conn->sess) {
-		pr_err("struct iscsi_conn session pointer is NULL!\n");
-		goto new_sess_out;
-	}
-
 	iscsi_stop_login_thread_timer(np);
 
-	if (signal_pending(current))
-		goto new_sess_out;
-
 	if (ret == 1) {
 		tpg_np = conn->tpg_np;
 
-		ret = iscsi_post_login_handler(np, conn, zero_tsih);
-		if (ret < 0)
-			goto new_sess_out;
-
+		iscsi_post_login_handler(np, conn, zero_tsih);
 		iscsit_deaccess_np(np, tpg, tpg_np);
 	}