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    iscsi-target: Fix iscsit_start_kthreads failure OOPs · e5419865
    Nicholas Bellinger authored
    This patch fixes a regression introduced with the following commit
    in v4.0-rc1 code, where a iscsit_start_kthreads() failure triggers
    a NULL pointer dereference OOPs:
    
        commit 88dcd2da
        Author: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
        Date:   Thu Feb 26 22:19:15 2015 -0800
    
            iscsi-target: Convert iscsi_thread_set usage to kthread.h
    
    To address this bug, move iscsit_start_kthreads() immediately
    preceeding the transmit of last login response, before signaling
    a successful transition into full-feature-phase within existing
    iscsi_target_do_tx_login_io() logic.
    
    This ensures that no target-side resource allocation failures can
    occur after the final login response has been successfully sent.
    
    Also, it adds a iscsi_conn->rx_login_comp to allow the RX thread
    to sleep to prevent other socket related failures until the final
    iscsi_post_login_handler() call is able to complete.
    
    Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.10+
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
    e5419865
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