linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] mpt2sas: Refcount fw

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Date:	Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:06:15 -0700
From:	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>
To:	Calvin Owens <calvinowens@...com>
Cc:	Nagalakshmi Nandigama <nagalakshmi.nandigama@...gotech.com>,
	Praveen Krishnamoorthy <praveen.krishnamoorthy@...gotech.com>,
	Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@...gotech.com>,
	Abhijit Mahajan <abhijit.mahajan@...gotech.com>,
	MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@...gotech.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com,
	Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...atus.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] mpt2sas: Refcount fw_events and fix unsafe list
 usage

On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 18:48 -0700, Calvin Owens wrote:
> The fw_event_work struct is concurrently referenced at shutdown, so
> add a refcount to protect it, and refactor the code to use it.
> 
> Additionally, refactor _scsih_fw_event_cleanup_queue() such that it
> no longer iterates over the list without holding the lock, since
> _firmware_event_work() concurrently deletes items from the list.
> 
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> Signed-off-by: Calvin Owens <calvinowens@...com>
> ---
> Changes in v4: None
> 
> Changes in v3:
> 	* Add a break condition to the REMOVE_UNRESPONDING_DEVICES fw_event,
> 	  which can loop over a sleep forever (5m+ at least) at unloading. I
> 	  don't think anything prevented this before, but taking the fw_event
> 	  object off the list at the top of _firmware_event_work() seems to have
> 	  made it more likely to happen.
> 
> Changes in v2:
> 	* Squished patches 4-6 into one patch
> 	* Remove the fw_event from fw_event_list at the start of
> 	  _firmware_event_work()
> 	* Explicitly seperate fw_event_list removal from fw_event freeing
> 
> drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_scsih.c | 112 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 91 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
> 

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>

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