In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: target: iscsi: Fix a race condition between login_work and the login thread
In case a malicious initiator sends some random data immediately after a login PDU; the iscsitargetskdataready() callback will schedule the loginwork and, at the same time, the negotiation may end without clearing the LOGINFLAGSINITIALPDU flag (because no additional PDU exchanges are required to complete the login).
The login has been completed but the loginwork function will find the LOGINFLAGSINITIALPDU flag set and will never stop from rescheduling itself; at this point, if the initiator drops the connection, the iscsitconn structure will be freed, loginwork will dereference a released socket structure and the kernel crashes.
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000230 PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode PF: errorcode(0x0002) - not-present page Workqueue: events iscsitargetdologinrx [iscsitargetmod] RIP: 0010:rawreadlockbh+0x15/0x30 Call trace: iscsitargetdologinrx+0x75/0x3f0 [iscsitargetmod] processone_work+0x1e8/0x3c0
Fix this bug by forcing login_work to stop after the login has been completed and the socket callbacks have been restored.
Add a comment to clearify the return values of iscsitargetdo_login()