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iscsi-target: Fix missed wakeup race in TX thread

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The sleeping code in iscsi_target_tx_thread() is susceptible to the classic
missed wakeup race:

 - TX thread finishes handle_immediate_queue() and handle_response_queue(),
   thinks both queues are empty.
 - Another thread adds a queue entry and does wake_up_process(), which does
   nothing because the TX thread is still awake.
 - TX thread does schedule_timeout() and sleeps forever.

In practice this can kill an iSCSI connection if for example an initiator
does single-threaded writes and the target misses the wakeup window when
queueing an R2T; in this case the connection will be stuck until the
initiator loses patience and does some task management operation (or kills
the connection entirely).

Fix this by converting to wait_event_interruptible(), which does not
suffer from this sort of race.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Cc: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
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Roland Dreier
2012-10-31 09:16:46 -07:00
committed by Nicholas Bellinger
parent 3e03989b58
commit d5627acba9
5 changed files with 26 additions and 3 deletions
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drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_util.h
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@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ extern struct iscsi_queue_req *iscsit_get_cmd_from_immediate_queue(struct iscsi_
extern void iscsit_add_cmd_to_response_queue(struct iscsi_cmd *, struct iscsi_conn *, u8);
extern struct iscsi_queue_req *iscsit_get_cmd_from_response_queue(struct iscsi_conn *);
extern void iscsit_remove_cmd_from_tx_queues(struct iscsi_cmd *, struct iscsi_conn *);
extern bool iscsit_conn_all_queues_empty(struct iscsi_conn *);
extern void iscsit_free_queue_reqs_for_conn(struct iscsi_conn *);
extern void iscsit_release_cmd(struct iscsi_cmd *);
extern void iscsit_free_cmd(struct iscsi_cmd *);