Re: [PATCH 18/26] target/iscsi: Allocate session IDs from an IDA

[Mike Christie]

On 07/26/2018 11:48 AM, Mike Christie wrote:
> On 06/21/2018 04:28 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
>> @@ -1163,11 +1157,9 @@ void iscsi_target_login_sess_out(struct iscsi_conn *conn,
>>  		goto old_sess_out;
>>  	if (conn->sess->se_sess)
>>  		transport_free_session(conn->sess->se_sess);
>> -	if (conn->sess->session_index != 0) {
>> -		spin_lock_bh(&sess_idr_lock);
>> -		idr_remove(&sess_idr, conn->sess->session_index);
>> -		spin_unlock_bh(&sess_idr_lock);
> 
> This code looks buggy. We will probably NULL pointer oops before we hit it.

Sorry did not mean null pointer, but some crash due to accessing memory
that was freed.

> 
> It looks like the session_index check was supposed to detect when login
> fails in the middle of doing login, so that code probably wanted to do:
> 
> idr_alloc(&sess_idr, NULL, 1, 0, GFP_NOWAIT);
> 
> The problem is that iscsi_login_zero_tsih_s1 sets conn->sess early in
> iscsi_login_set_conn_values. If the function fails later like when we
> alloc the idr it does kfree(sess) and leaves the conn->sess pointer set.
> iscsi_login_zero_tsih_s1 then returns -Exyz and we then call
> iscsi_target_login_sess_out and access the freed memory above.
> 
> So I am not sure what we want to do here for your patch since it is not
> adding any new bugs. Just merge your patch now and I can send a fix for
> the above bug over it?
> 
> 
>> -	}
>> +	/* Um, 0 is a valid ID.  I suppose we never free it? */
>> +	if (conn->sess->session_index != 0)
>> +		ida_free(&sess_ida, conn->sess->session_index);
>>  	kfree(conn->sess->sess_ops);
>>  	kfree(conn->sess);
>>  	conn->sess = NULL;
>>
>