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authorSreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@avagotech.com>2015-11-11 13:00:33 +0100
committerMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>2015-11-12 01:24:02 +0100
commit08c4d550c5797d842b1f1bb85d474a8b54f02382 (patch)
tree188c3590ac007bbdbcfe83c9c4e93f31600fe463 /drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.h
parentmpt3sas: Added OEM Gen2 PnP ID branding names (diff)
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mpt3sas: setpci reset kernel oops fix
setpci reset on nytro warpdrive card along with sysfs access and cli ioctl access resulted in kernel oops 1. pci_access_mutex lock added to provide synchronization between IOCTL, sysfs, PCI resource handling path 2. gioc_lock spinlock to protect list operations over multiple controllers This patch is ported from commit 6229b414b3ad ("mpt2sas: setpci reset kernel oops fix"). Signed-off-by: Sreekanth Reddy <Sreekanth.Reddy@avagotech.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.h')
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.h20
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.h b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.h
index c92be3c15e46..6d64fa8268e7 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.h
@@ -916,7 +916,13 @@ typedef void (*MPT3SAS_FLUSH_RUNNING_CMDS)(struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER *ioc);
* @replyPostRegisterIndex: index of next position in Reply Desc Post Queue
* @delayed_tr_list: target reset link list
* @delayed_tr_volume_list: volume target reset link list
- * @@temp_sensors_count: flag to carry the number of temperature sensors
+ * @temp_sensors_count: flag to carry the number of temperature sensors
+ * @pci_access_mutex: Mutex to synchronize ioctl,sysfs show path and
+ * pci resource handling. PCI resource freeing will lead to free
+ * vital hardware/memory resource, which might be in use by cli/sysfs
+ * path functions resulting in Null pointer reference followed by kernel
+ * crash. To avoid the above race condition we use mutex syncrhonization
+ * which ensures the syncrhonization between cli/sysfs_show path.
*/
struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER {
struct list_head list;
@@ -1131,6 +1137,7 @@ struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER {
struct list_head delayed_tr_list;
struct list_head delayed_tr_volume_list;
u8 temp_sensors_count;
+ struct mutex pci_access_mutex;
/* diag buffer support */
u8 *diag_buffer[MPI2_DIAG_BUF_TYPE_COUNT];
@@ -1161,6 +1168,17 @@ typedef u8 (*MPT_CALLBACK)(struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER *ioc, u16 smid, u8 msix_index,
/* base shared API */
extern struct list_head mpt3sas_ioc_list;
extern char driver_name[MPT_NAME_LENGTH];
+/* spinlock on list operations over IOCs
+ * Case: when multiple warpdrive cards(IOCs) are in use
+ * Each IOC will added to the ioc list structure on initialization.
+ * Watchdog threads run at regular intervals to check IOC for any
+ * fault conditions which will trigger the dead_ioc thread to
+ * deallocate pci resource, resulting deleting the IOC netry from list,
+ * this deletion need to protected by spinlock to enusre that
+ * ioc removal is syncrhonized, if not synchronized it might lead to
+ * list_del corruption as the ioc list is traversed in cli path.
+ */
+extern spinlock_t gioc_lock;
void mpt3sas_base_start_watchdog(struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER *ioc);
void mpt3sas_base_stop_watchdog(struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER *ioc);