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

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Fri Oct 31 20:53:35 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-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.11.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 9e294853082c49023e46acfc3102de03a4b133c0 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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal 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 7eb19be..b93f24a 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/tcm_qla2xxx.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/tcm_qla2xxx.c
@@ -740,7 +740,16 @@ 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);
--
1.9.1





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