Fedora got a bug report of a crash with iSCSI:
kernel BUG at include/linux/scatterlist.h:143!
...
RIP: 0010:iscsit_do_crypto_hash_buf+0x154/0x180 [iscsi_target_mod]
...
Call Trace:
? iscsi_target_tx_thread+0x200/0x200 [iscsi_target_mod]
iscsit_get_rx_pdu+0x4cd/0xa90 [iscsi_target_mod]
? native_sched_clock+0x3e/0xa0
? iscsi_target_tx_thread+0x200/0x200 [iscsi_target_mod]
iscsi_target_rx_thread+0x81/0xf0 [iscsi_target_mod]
kthread+0x120/0x140
? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x70/0x70
ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50
This is a BUG_ON for using a stack buffer with a scatterlist. There
are two cases that trigger this bug. Switch to using a dynamically
allocated buffer for one case and do not assign a NULL buffer in
another case.
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>