Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] scsi: Fix racing between dev init and dev reset

[Miles Chen <miles.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Alice,

Thanks for your patch. I have some questions.

> Device reset thread uses kobject_uevent_env() to get kobj.parent
> after scsi_evt_emit(), and it races with device init thread which
> calls device_add() to create kobj.parent before kobject_uevent_env().
> 
> Device reset call trace:
> fill_kobj_path
> kobject_get_path
> kobject_uevent_env
> scsi_evt_emit			<- add wait_event()
> scsi_evt_thread
> 
> Device init call trace:
> fill_kobj_path
> kobject_get_path
> kobject_uevent_env
> device_add				<- create kobj.parent
> scsi_target_add
> scsi_sysfs_add_sdev
> scsi_add_lun
> scsi_probe_and_add_lun

These are backtraces, and the things above looks like your solution, not
the problem.
It's better to describe the problem first and solution later:

Device init call:                              Device reset call:   
scsi_probe_and_add_lun()                       scsi_evt_thread()
  scsi_add_lun()
    scsi_sysfs_add_sdev()                        scsi_evt_emit()
      scsi_target_add()                            kobject_uevent_env() 
        device_add()                                 kobject_get_path() // something wrong?
	                                               fill_kobj_path()
	  get_device_parent() // I see a get, not create parent kobj, could you show me that point?
	  kobject_uevent()
            kobject_uevent_env()
              kobject_get_path()
                fill_kobj_path()

> 
> These two jobs are scheduled asynchronously, we can't guaranteed that
> kobj.parent will be created in device init thread before device reset
> thread calls kobj_get_path().

What happens if device reset thread calls kobj_get_path() before kobj.parent's
creation? a crash or something?

> 
> To resolve the racing issue between device init thread and device
> reset thread, we use wait_event() in scsi_evt_emit() to wait for
> device_add() to complete the creation of kobj.parent.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alice Chao <alice.chao@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

When we send patch N+1, we have to put the change log between patch v1 to vN
under a "---", so others can understand the changes between patch N and N+1.
e.g.,

---

Change since v1
- remove Change-Id

> ---
>  drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c  | 1 +
>  drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
> index 0a70aa763a96..abf9a71ed77c 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
> @@ -2461,6 +2461,7 @@ static void scsi_evt_emit(struct scsi_device *sdev, struct scsi_event *evt)
>  		break;
>  	case SDEV_EVT_POWER_ON_RESET_OCCURRED:
>  		envp[idx++] = "SDEV_UA=POWER_ON_RESET_OCCURRED";
> +		wait_event(sdev->host->host_wait, sdev->sdev_gendev.kobj.parent != NULL);
>  		break;
>  	default:
>  		/* do nothing */
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
> index f4e6c68ac99e..431f229ac435 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
> @@ -1904,6 +1904,7 @@ static void do_scsi_scan_host(struct Scsi_Host *shost)
>  	} else {
>  		scsi_scan_host_selected(shost, SCAN_WILD_CARD, SCAN_WILD_CARD,
>  				SCAN_WILD_CARD, 0);
> +		wake_up(&shost->host_wait);

do_scsi_scan_host() is not in the call trace above, could you show the relationship
of do_scsi_scan_host in the call flow?

thanks,
Miles

>  	}
>  }