linux/drivers
Joe Eykholt 4b2164d4d2 [SCSI] libfc: Fix remote port restart problem
This patch somewhat combines two fixes to remote port handing in libfc.

The first problem was that rport work could be queued on a deleted
and freed rport.  This is handled by not resetting rdata->event
ton NONE if the rdata is about to be deleted.

However, that fix led to the second problem, described by
Bhanu Gollapudi, as follows:
> Here is the sequence of events. T1 is first LOGO receive thread, T2 is
> fc_rport_work() scheduled by T1 and T3 is second LOGO receive thread and
> T4 is fc_rport_work scheduled by T3.
>
> 1. (T1)Received 1st LOGO in state Ready
> 2. (T1)Delete port & enter to RESTART state.
> 3. (T1)schdule event_work, since event is RPORT_EV_NONE.
> 4. (T1)set event = RPORT_EV_LOGO
> 5. (T1)Enter RESTART state as disc_id is set.
> 6. (T2)remember to PLOGI, and set event = RPORT_EV_NONE
> 6. (T3)Received 2nd LOGO
> 7. (T3)Delete Port & enter to RESTART state.
> 8. (T3)schedule event_work, since event is RPORT_EV_NONE.
> 9. (T3)Enter RESTART state as disc_id is set.
> 9. (T3)set event = RPORT_EV_LOGO
> 10.(T2)work restart, enter PLOGI state and issues PLOGI
> 11.(T4)Since state is not RESTART anymore, restart is not set, and the
> event is not reset to RPORT_EV_NONE. (current event is RPORT_EV_LOGO).
> 12. Now, PLOGI succeeds and fc_rport_enter_ready() will not schedule
> event_work, and hence the rport will never be created, eventually losing
> the target after dev_loss_tmo.

So, the problem here is that we were tracking the desire for
the rport be restarted by state RESTART, which was otherwise
equivalent to DELETE.  A contributing factor is that we dropped
the lock between steps 6 and 10 in thread T2, which allows the
state to change, and we didn't completely re-evaluate then.

This is hopefully corrected by the following minor redesign:

Simplify the rport restart logic by making the decision to
restart after deleting the transport rport.  That decision
is based on a new STARTED flag that indicates fc_rport_login()
has been called and fc_rport_logoff() has not been called
since then.  This replaces the need for the RESTART state.

Only restart if the rdata is still in DELETED state
and only if it still has the STARTED flag set.

Also now, since we clear the event code much later in the
work thread, allow for the possibility that the rport may
have become READY again via incoming PLOGI, and if so,
queue another event to handle that.

In the problem scenario, the second LOGO received will
cause the LOGO event to occur again.

Reported-by: Bhanu Gollapudi <bprakash@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Eykholt <jeykholt@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2010-07-27 12:01:52 -05:00
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accessibility
acpi Merge branch 'acpi-idle' into release 2010-06-04 15:23:02 -04:00
amba
ata sata_sil24: Use memory barriers before issuing commands 2010-06-10 16:06:48 -04:00
atm Merge remote branch 'origin' into secretlab/next-devicetree 2010-05-22 00:36:56 -06:00
auxdisplay auxdisplay: section cleanup in cfag12864bfb driver 2010-05-25 08:07:09 -07:00
base topology: convert cpu notifier to return encapsulate errno value 2010-05-27 09:12:48 -07:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2010-06-04 15:37:44 -07:00
bluetooth Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2010-05-20 21:04:44 -07:00
cdrom
char Revert "tty: fix a little bug in scrup, vt.c" 2010-06-06 20:44:04 -07:00
clocksource clocksource: sh_cmt: compute mult and shift before registration 2010-06-02 17:10:44 +09:00
connector
cpufreq
cpuidle Merge branch 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6 2010-05-28 16:14:17 -07:00
crypto crypto: crypto4xx - Fix build breakage 2010-06-03 16:57:24 +10:00
dca
dio
dma of/dma: fix build breakage in ppc4xx adma driver 2010-06-02 21:02:39 -06:00
edac Merge branch 'linux_next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/i7core 2010-06-04 15:39:54 -07:00
eisa
firewire firewire: core: check for 1394a compliant IRM, fix inaccessibility of Sony camcorder 2010-06-02 19:48:13 +02:00
firmware sysfs: add struct file* to bin_attr callbacks 2010-05-21 09:37:31 -07:00
gpio gpio: Fix inverted rdc321x gpio data out registers 2010-05-28 01:37:59 +02:00
gpu Revert "drm/i915: Don't enable pipe/plane/VCO early (wait for DPMS on)." 2010-06-08 20:16:28 -07:00
hid Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2010-05-27 09:19:55 -07:00
hwmon i2c: Remove all i2c_set_clientdata(client, NULL) in drivers 2010-06-03 11:33:58 +02:00
i2c i2c: Remove all i2c_set_clientdata(client, NULL) in drivers 2010-06-03 11:33:58 +02:00
ide powerpc/macio: Fix probing of macio devices by using the right of match table 2010-06-02 17:50:38 +10:00
idle intel_idle: native hardware cpuidle driver for latest Intel processors 2010-05-28 14:26:20 -04:00
ieee1394 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6 2010-05-27 10:22:06 -07:00
ieee802154
infiniband fix the deadlock in qib_fs 2010-06-04 17:16:27 -04:00
input hp_sdc_rtc: fix broken ioctl conversion 2010-06-08 22:23:21 +02:00
isdn isdn/kcapi: return -EFAULT on copy_from_user errors 2010-06-03 03:28:22 -07:00
leds i2c: Remove all i2c_set_clientdata(client, NULL) in drivers 2010-06-03 11:33:58 +02:00
lguest
macintosh Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2010-06-03 15:46:37 -07:00
mca
md md: convert cpu notifier to return encapsulate errno value 2010-05-27 09:12:48 -07:00
media Merge branch 'v4l_for_2.6.35' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6 2010-06-04 15:38:12 -07:00
memstick
message [SCSI] mptsas: fix hangs caused by ATA pass-through 2010-07-27 12:01:01 -05:00
mfd i2c: Remove all i2c_set_clientdata(client, NULL) in drivers 2010-06-03 11:33:58 +02:00
misc vmware balloon: clamp number of collected non-balloonable pages 2010-06-04 15:21:44 -07:00
mmc mmc: msm: fix compile error on MSM7x30 2010-06-09 08:51:31 -07:00
mtd Merge git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/mtd-2.6.35 2010-06-07 17:10:06 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-06-11 14:20:03 -07:00
nubus
of Merge remote branch 'origin' into secretlab/next-devicetree 2010-05-22 00:36:56 -06:00
oprofile
parisc
parport m68k: amiga - Parallel port platform device conversion 2010-05-26 19:51:09 +02:00
pci Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2010-06-11 14:15:44 -07:00
pcmcia pcmcia: avoid validate_cis failure on CIS override 2010-06-07 18:34:16 +02:00
platform intel_scu_ipc: Length fix 2010-06-01 08:40:47 -07:00
pnp
power i2c: Remove all i2c_set_clientdata(client, NULL) in drivers 2010-06-03 11:33:58 +02:00
pps
ps3
rapidio rapidio: fix new kernel-doc warnings 2010-05-30 09:02:47 -07:00
regulator i2c: Remove all i2c_set_clientdata(client, NULL) in drivers 2010-06-03 11:33:58 +02:00
rtc rtc: s3c: initialize s3c_rtc_cpu_type before using it 2010-06-04 15:21:44 -07:00
s390 [SCSI] zfcp: Update status read mempool 2010-07-21 15:05:09 -07:00
sbus Merge branch 'bkl/ioctl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing 2010-05-24 08:01:10 -07:00
scsi [SCSI] libfc: Fix remote port restart problem 2010-07-27 12:01:52 -05:00
serial serial: add support for various Titan PCI cards 2010-06-04 13:37:18 -07:00
sfi SFI: do not return freed pointer 2010-06-01 12:04:35 -04:00
sh sh: Make intc messages consistent via pr_fmt. 2010-06-02 18:10:00 +09:00
sn
spi of/spi: mpc512x_psc_spi.c: Fix build failures 2010-06-02 13:45:06 -06:00
ssb ssb: fix NULL ptr deref when pcihost_wrapper is used 2010-05-28 13:57:01 -04:00
staging Merge branch 'v4l_for_2.6.35' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6 2010-06-04 15:38:12 -07:00
tc
telephony drivers/telephony/ixj.c: use memdup_user 2010-05-27 09:12:42 -07:00
thermal
uio
usb Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6 2010-06-04 15:42:09 -07:00
uwb
vhost misc: Fix allocation 'borrowed' by vhost_net 2010-06-09 08:50:31 -07:00
video Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6 2010-06-04 15:42:09 -07:00
virtio Merge branch 'virtio' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus 2010-05-21 17:22:52 -07:00
vlynq
w1 sysfs: add struct file* to bin_attr callbacks 2010-05-21 09:37:31 -07:00
watchdog [PATCH 2/11] drivers/watchdog: Eliminate a NULL pointer dereference 2010-06-07 15:55:03 +00:00
xen xen: avoid allocation causing potential swap activity on the resume path 2010-06-03 09:34:45 +01:00
zorro sysfs: add struct file* to bin_attr callbacks 2010-05-21 09:37:31 -07:00
Kconfig
Makefile intel_idle: native hardware cpuidle driver for latest Intel processors 2010-05-28 14:26:20 -04:00