Re: [PATCH] Revert "scsi: iscsi: Fix HW conn removal use after free"

[Mike Christie]

On 7/15/25 2:39 AM, Li Lingfeng wrote:
> This reverts commit c577ab7ba5f3bf9062db8a58b6e89d4fe370447e.
> 
> The invocation of iscsi_put_conn() in iscsi_iter_destory_conn_fn() is used
> to free the initial reference counter of iscsi_cls_conn.
> For non-qla4xxx cases, the ->destroy_conn() callback (e.g.,
> iscsi_conn_teardown) will call iscsi_remove_conn() and iscsi_put_conn() to
> remove the connection from the children list of session and free the
> connection at last.
> However for qla4xxx, it is not the case. The ->destroy_conn() callback
> of qla4xxx will keep the connection in the session conn_list and doesn't
> use iscsi_put_conn() to free the initial reference counter. Therefore,
> it seems necessary to keep the iscsi_put_conn() in the
> iscsi_iter_destroy_conn_fn(), otherwise, there will be memory leak
> problem.
> 
I must have thought we did a unregister instead of remove for
some reason. Thanks for catching this.

Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@xxxxxxxxxx>