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Message-ID: <7d4e4aa5-0d15-ca8c-243f-24c60e1378ed@huawei.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 15:16:26 +0000
From: John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
CC: <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
wangyijing <wangyijing@...wei.com>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
John Garry <john.garry2@...l.dcu.ie>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
<linuxarm@...wei.com>, <lindar_liu@...sh.com>,
Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
Jinpu Wang <jinpu.wang@...fitbricks.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] scsi: libsas: fix WARN on device removal
>>>> @Maintainers, would you be willing to accept this patch as an interim fix
>>>> for the dastardly WARN while we try to fix the flutter issue?
>>>
>>>
>>> To me this adds a bug to quiet a benign, albeit noisy, warning.
>>>
>>
>> What is the bug which is being added?
>
> The bug where we queue a port teardown, but see a port formation event
> in the meantime.
As I understand, this vulnerability already exists:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=143801026028006&w=2
I actually don't understand how libsas dealt with flutter (which I take
to mean a burst of up and down events) before these changes, as it can
only queue simultaneously one up and one down event per port. So, if we
get a flutter, then the events are lost and we get indeterminate state.
>
>> And it's a very noisy warning, as in 6K lines on the console when an
>> expander is unplugged.
>
> Does something like this modulate the failure?
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c
> b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c index
> 60b651bfaa01..11401e5c88ba 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c
> @@ -262,9 +262,10 @@ static void sas_bsg_remove(struct Scsi_Host
> *shost, struct sas_rphy *rphy
> {
> struct request_queue *q;
>
> - if (rphy)
> + if (rphy) {
> q = rphy->q;
> - else
> + rphy->q = NULL;
> + } else
> q = to_sas_host_attrs(shost)->q;
>
> if (!q)
>
> .
>
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