[3.16.y-ckt extended stable] Patch "qla_target: don't delete changed nacls" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Nov 10 11:31:12 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    qla_target: don't delete changed nacls

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt1.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 53f796334d654f0dbe3aea3c72fd431a05ca7dd3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joern Engel <joern at logfs.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 14:35:56 -0700
Subject: qla_target: don't delete changed nacls

commit f4c24db1b7ad0ce84409e15744d26c6f86a96840 upstream.

The code is currently riddled with "drop the hardware_lock to avoid a
deadlock" bugs that expose races.  One of those races seems to expose a
valid warning in tcm_qla2xxx_clear_nacl_from_fcport_map.  Add some
bandaid to it.

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern at logfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab at linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/tcm_qla2xxx.c | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/tcm_qla2xxx.c b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/tcm_qla2xxx.c
index e2beab962096..4747d2c66024 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/tcm_qla2xxx.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/tcm_qla2xxx.c
@@ -757,7 +757,16 @@ static void tcm_qla2xxx_clear_nacl_from_fcport_map(struct qla_tgt_sess *sess)
 	pr_debug("fc_rport domain: port_id 0x%06x\n", nacl->nport_id);

 	node = btree_remove32(&lport->lport_fcport_map, nacl->nport_id);
-	WARN_ON(node && (node != se_nacl));
+	if (WARN_ON(node && (node != se_nacl))) {
+		/*
+		 * The nacl no longer matches what we think it should be.
+		 * Most likely a new dynamic acl has been added while
+		 * someone dropped the hardware lock.  It clearly is a
+		 * bug elsewhere, but this bit can't make things worse.
+		 */
+		btree_insert32(&lport->lport_fcport_map, nacl->nport_id,
+			       node, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	}

 	pr_debug("Removed from fcport_map: %p for WWNN: 0x%016LX, port_id: 0x%06x\n",
 	    se_nacl, nacl->nport_wwnn, nacl->nport_id);
--
2.1.0





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