From: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
To: Lee Duncan <leeman.duncan@gmail.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
cleech@redhat.com
Cc: hare@suse.de, Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] Hold back_lock when calling iscsi_complete_task
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 11:02:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <594d8ad8-78d1-e012-d782-39abb746032b@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190222162947.25178-1-leeman.duncan@gmail.com>
On 22/02/2019 17:29, Lee Duncan wrote:
> From: Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>
>
> If there is an error queueing an iscsi command in
> iscsi_queuecommand(), for example if the transport fails
> to take the command in sessuin->tt->xmit_task(), then
> the error path can call iscsi_complete_task() without
> first aquiring the back_lock as required. This can
> lead to things like ITT pool can get corrupt, resulting
> in duplicate ITTs being sent out.
>
> The solution is to hold the back_lock around
> iscsi_complete_task() calls, and to add a little commenting
> to help others understand when back_lock must be held.
You're missing a S-o-b here.
Byte,
Johannes
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2019-02-22 16:29 Lee Duncan
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2019-02-25 17:39 ` Lee Duncan
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