The following bug was reported and debugged by wubo40@huawei.com:

When testing kernel 4.18 version, NULL pointer dereference problem occurs
in iscsi_eh_cmd_timed_out() function.

I think this bug in the upstream is still exists.

The analysis reasons are as follows:

1) For some reason, I/O command did not complete within the timeout
   period. The block layer timer works, call scsi_times_out() to handle I/O
   timeout logic.  At the same time the command just completes.

2) scsi_times_out() call iscsi_eh_cmd_timed_out() to process timeout logic.
   Although there is an NULL judgment for the task, the task has not been
   released yet now.

3) iscsi_complete_task() calls __iscsi_put_task(). The task reference count
   reaches zero, the conditions for free task is met, then
   iscsi_free_task() frees the task, and sets sc->SCp.ptr = NULL. After
   iscsi_eh_cmd_timed_out() passes the task judgment check, there can still
   be NULL dereference scenarios.

   CPU0                                                CPU3

    |- scsi_times_out()                                 |-
iscsi_complete_task()
    |                                                   |
    |- iscsi_eh_cmd_timed_out()                         |-
__iscsi_put_task()
    |                                                   |
    |- task=sc->SCp.ptr, task is not NUL, check passed  |-
iscsi_free_task(task)
    |                                                   |
    |                                                   |-> sc->SCp.ptr
= NULL
    |                                                   |
    |- task is NULL now, NULL pointer dereference       |
    |                                                   |
   \|/                                                 \|/

Calltrace:
[380751.840862] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
0000000000000138
[380751.843709] PGD 0 P4D 0
[380751.844770] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
[380751.846283] CPU: 0 PID: 403 Comm: kworker/0:1H Kdump: loaded
Tainted: G
[380751.851467] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
[380751.856521] Workqueue: kblockd blk_mq_timeout_work
[380751.858527] RIP: 0010:iscsi_eh_cmd_timed_out+0x15e/0x2e0 [libiscsi]
[380751.861129] Code: 83 ea 01 48 8d 74 d0 08 48 8b 10 48 8b 4a 50 48 85
c9 74 2c 48 39 d5 74
[380751.868811] RSP: 0018:ffffc1e280a5fd58 EFLAGS: 00010246
[380751.870978] RAX: ffff9fd1e84e15e0 RBX: ffff9fd1e84e6dd0 RCX:
0000000116acc580
[380751.873791] RDX: ffff9fd1f97a9400 RSI: ffff9fd1e84e1800 RDI:
ffff9fd1e4d6d420
[380751.876059] RBP: ffff9fd1e4d49000 R08: 0000000116acc580 R09:
0000000116acc580
[380751.878284] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12:
ffff9fd1e6e931e8
[380751.880500] R13: ffff9fd1e84e6ee0 R14: 0000000000000010 R15:
0000000000000003
[380751.882687] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9fd1fac00000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
[380751.885236] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[380751.887059] CR2: 0000000000000138 CR3: 000000011860a001 CR4:
00000000003606f0
[380751.889308] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2:
0000000000000000
[380751.891523] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7:
0000000000000400
[380751.893738] Call Trace:
[380751.894639]  scsi_times_out+0x60/0x1c0
[380751.895861]  blk_mq_check_expired+0x144/0x200
[380751.897302]  ? __switch_to_asm+0x35/0x70
[380751.898551]  blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter+0x195/0x2e0
[380751.900091]  ? __blk_mq_requeue_request+0x100/0x100
[380751.901611]  ? __switch_to_asm+0x41/0x70
[380751.902853]  ? __blk_mq_requeue_request+0x100/0x100
[380751.904398]  blk_mq_timeout_work+0x54/0x130
[380751.905740]  process_one_work+0x195/0x390
[380751.907228]  worker_thread+0x30/0x390
[380751.908713]  ? process_one_work+0x390/0x390
[380751.910350]  kthread+0x10d/0x130
[380751.911470]  ? kthread_flush_work_fn+0x10/0x10
[380751.913007]  ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40

crash> dis -l iscsi_eh_cmd_timed_out+0x15e
xxxxx/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c: 2062

1970 enum blk_eh_timer_return iscsi_eh_cmd_timed_out(struct scsi_cmnd
*sc)
{
...
1984         spin_lock_bh(&session->frwd_lock);
1985         task = (struct iscsi_task *)sc->SCp.ptr;
1986         if (!task) {
1987                 /*
1988                  * Raced with completion. Blk layer has taken
ownership
1989                  * so let timeout code complete it now.
1990                  */
1991                 rc = BLK_EH_DONE;
1992                 goto done;
1993         }

...

2052         for (i = 0; i < conn->session->cmds_max; i++) {
2053                 running_task = conn->session->cmds[i];
2054                 if (!running_task->sc || running_task == task ||
2055                      running_task->state != ISCSI_TASK_RUNNING)
2056                         continue;
2057
2058                 /*
2059                  * Only check if cmds started before this one have
made
2060                  * progress, or this could never fail
2061                  */
2062                 if (time_after(running_task->sc->jiffies_at_alloc,
2063                                task->sc->jiffies_at_alloc))    <---
2064                         continue;
2065
...
}

carsh> struct scsi_cmnd ffff9fd1e6e931e8
struct scsi_cmnd {
  ...
  SCp = {
    ptr = 0x0,   <--- iscsi_task
    this_residual = 0,
    ...
  },
}

To prevent this, we take a ref to the cmd under the back (completion) lock
so if the completion side were to call iscsi_complete_task() on the task
while the timer/eh paths are not holding the back_lock it will not be freed
from under us.

Note that this requires the previous patch, "scsi: libiscsi: Drop
taskqueuelock" because bnx2i sleeps in its cleanup_task callout if the cmd
is aborted. If the EH/timer and completion path are racing we don't know
which path will do the last put. The previous patch moved the operations we
needed to do under the forward lock to cleanup_queued_task.  Once that has
run we can drop the forward lock for the cmd and bnx2i no longer has to
worry about if the EH, timer or completion path did the ast put and if the
forward lock is held or not since it won't be.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210207044608.27585-4-michael.christie@oracle.comReported-by: NWu Bo <wubo40@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: NLee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>