This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    target: Fix reference leak in target_get_sess_cmd() error path

to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     target-fix-reference-leak-in-target_get_sess_cmd-error-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 7544e597343e2166daba3f32e4708533aa53c233 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 15:33:58 +0100
Subject: target: Fix reference leak in target_get_sess_cmd() error path

From: Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>

commit 7544e597343e2166daba3f32e4708533aa53c233 upstream.

This patch fixes a se_cmd->cmd_kref leak buf when se_sess->sess_tearing_down
is true within target_get_sess_cmd() submission path code.

This se_cmd reference leak can occur during active session shutdown when
ack_kref=1 is passed by target_submit_cmd_[map_sgls,tmr]() callers.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/target/target_core_transport.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
+++ b/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
@@ -2222,6 +2222,10 @@ int target_get_sess_cmd(struct se_sessio
 
 out:
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&se_sess->sess_cmd_lock, flags);
+
+       if (ret && ack_kref)
+               target_put_sess_cmd(se_sess, se_cmd);
+
        return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(target_get_sess_cmd);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from 
[email protected] are

queue-3.10/target-fix-reference-leak-in-target_get_sess_cmd-error-path.patch
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