linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] scsi: ufs: Cleanup completed request without interrupt notification

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Message-ID: <f45c6c47-ffc5-3f8e-3234-9e5989dbf996@acm.org>
Date:   Fri, 31 Jul 2020 09:51:55 -0700
From:   Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
To:     Can Guo <cang@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     Stanley Chu <stanley.chu@...iatek.com>,
        Avri Altman <Avri.Altman@....com>, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        martin.petersen@...cle.com, alim.akhtar@...sung.com,
        jejb@...ux.ibm.com, beanhuo@...ron.com, asutoshd@...eaurora.org,
        matthias.bgg@...il.com, linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kuohong.wang@...iatek.com, peter.wang@...iatek.com,
        chun-hung.wu@...iatek.com, andy.teng@...iatek.com,
        chaotian.jing@...iatek.com, cc.chou@...iatek.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] scsi: ufs: Cleanup completed request without interrupt
 notification

On 2020-07-31 01:00, Can Guo wrote:
> AFAIK, sychronization of scsi_done is not a problem here, because scsi
> layer
> use the atomic state, namely SCMD_STATE_COMPLETE, of a scsi cmd to prevent
> the concurrency of abort and real completion of it.
> 
> Check func scsi_times_out(), hope it helps.
> 
> enum blk_eh_timer_return scsi_times_out(struct request *req)
> {
> ...
>         if (rtn == BLK_EH_DONE) {
>                 /*
>                  * Set the command to complete first in order to prevent
> a real
>                  * completion from releasing the command while error
> handling
>                  * is using it. If the command was already completed,
> then the
>                  * lower level driver beat the timeout handler, and it
> is safe
>                  * to return without escalating error recovery.
>                  *
>                  * If timeout handling lost the race to a real
> completion, the
>                  * block layer may ignore that due to a fake timeout
> injection,
>                  * so return RESET_TIMER to allow error handling another
> shot
>                  * at this command.
>                  */
>                 if (test_and_set_bit(SCMD_STATE_COMPLETE, &scmd->state))
>                         return BLK_EH_RESET_TIMER;
>                 if (scsi_abort_command(scmd) != SUCCESS) {
>                         set_host_byte(scmd, DID_TIME_OUT);
>                         scsi_eh_scmd_add(scmd);
>                 }
>         }
> }

I am familiar with this mechanism. My concern is that both the regular
completion path and the abort handler must call scsi_dma_unmap() before
calling cmd->scsi_done(cmd). I don't see how
test_and_set_bit(SCMD_STATE_COMPLETE, &scmd->state) could prevent that
the regular completion path and the abort handler call scsi_dma_unmap()
concurrently since both calls happen before the SCMD_STATE_COMPLETE bit
is set?

Thanks,

Bart.