On Thu, 2 Jan 2014, James Bottomley wrote:
> In the highly unusual case where two threads are running concurrently through
> the scanning code scanning the same target, we run into the situation where
> one may allocate the target while the other is still using it. In this case,
> because the reap checks for STARGET_CREATED and kills the target without
> reference counting, the second thread will do the wrong thing on reap.
>
> Fix this by reference counting even creates and doing the STARGET_CREATED
> check in the final put.
I'm still concerned about one thing. The previous patch does this in
scsi_alloc_target():
> found:
> - found_target->reap_ref++;
> + if (!kref_get_unless_zero(&found_target->reap_ref))
> + /*
> + * release routine already fired. Target is dead, but
> + * STARGET_DEL may not yet be set (set in the release
> + * routine), so set here as well, just in case
> + */
> + found_target->state = STARGET_DEL;
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(shost->host_lock, flags);
As a result, the two comments in this patch aren't right:
> @@ -384,9 +385,15 @@ static void scsi_target_reap_ref_release(struct kref
> *kref)
> struct scsi_target *starget
> = container_of(kref, struct scsi_target, reap_ref);
>
> - transport_remove_device(&starget->dev);
> - device_del(&starget->dev);
> - starget->state = STARGET_DEL;
> + /*
> + * if we get here and the target is still in the CREATED state that
> + * means it was allocated but never made visible (because a scan
> + * turned up no LUNs), so don't call device_del() on it.
> + */
> + if (starget->state == STARGET_RUNNING) {
> + transport_remove_device(&starget->dev);
> + device_del(&starget->dev);
> + }
Here the state could already be STARGET_DEL, even though the target is
still visible.
Also, it's a little odd that the comment talks about CREATED but the
code really checks for RUNNING. They should be consistent.
> @@ -506,11 +513,13 @@ static struct scsi_target *scsi_alloc_target(struct
> device *parent,
> */
> void scsi_target_reap(struct scsi_target *starget)
> {
> + /*
> + * serious problem if this triggers: STARGET_DEL is only set in the
> + * kref release routine, so we're doing another final put on an
> + * already released kref
> + */
> BUG_ON(starget->state == STARGET_DEL);
Here the code is okay but the comment is wrong: STARGET_DEL is set in
_two_ places (but neither of them runs until reap_ref has reached 0).
Would it be better in scsi_alloc_target() to behave as though the state
were STARGET_DEL without actually setting it?
Alan Stern
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