Alok, This part of code is obsolete in LSI's new driver. Very soon you will not see " mptscsih_tm_wait_for_completion" fuction. It is replaced by "wait_for_completion_timeout()". I will say for your kernel panic due to double free in msg frame link list can be avoided by changing " mpt_free_msg_frame". See snippet of code below. ------------------------------------------------------------------ void mpt_free_msg_frame(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc, MPT_FRAME_HDR *mf) { unsigned long flags; /* Put Request back on FreeQ! */ spin_lock_irqsave(&ioc->FreeQlock, flags); if (cpu_to_le32(mf->u.frame.linkage.arg1) == 0xdeadbeaf) <---------- goto out; /* signature to know if this mf is freed */ mf->u.frame.linkage.arg1 = cpu_to_le32(0xdeadbeaf); list_add_tail(&mf->u.frame.linkage.list, &ioc->FreeQ); out: spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ioc->FreeQlock, flags); } ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is how we are doing in LSI's Inbox driver. Thanks, Kashyap -----Original Message----- From: linux-scsi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-scsi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alok Kataria Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:25 AM To: Moore, Eric; James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: DL-MPT Fusion Linux; linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix double free of MPT request frames. Ccing James...any comments on the patch below ? Thanks, Alok On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 12:25 -0700, Alok Kataria wrote: > Hi, > > While testing scsi path failover for disks using MPT drivers we hit a > kernel oops on RHEL 5.1-64bit, while analyzing the problem we noticed > that this is due to a race present in the mpt scsi code path. The same > race seems to be present in the latest git kernel code too. > > Here is the description of the race, > If a command has run for too long - which can happen often in the > failover case - the SCSI stack decides to abort that command and invokes > a device's abort handler. > The code flow is... > > mptscsih_abort ==> mptscsih_TMHandle (ABORT_TASK) ==> > mptscsih_IssueTaskMgmt (submits the command ) ==> > mptscsih_tm_wait_for_completion() > > the mptscsih_tm_wait_for_completion code looks like this > > do { > spin_lock_irqsave(&ioc->FreeQlock, flags); > if(hd->tmPending == 0) { > status = SUCCESS; > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ioc->FreeQlock, flags); > break; > } > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ioc->FreeQlock, flags); > msleep(250); <<================== > } while (--loop_count); > > where its looping on hd->tmPending (SUCCESS) or until timeout expires > (FAILURE). > > Every thing works fine in the success case, in the failure case we > return to mptscsih_IssueTaskMgmt, and call mpt_HardResetHandler, where > we throw all inflight commands (hard reset) and free request via > mpt_free_msg_frame. Which also seems fine. > > Now notice in the loop above that in the last iteration we sleep for > 250ms after the last read to tmPending, the TM command could complete > between this check of tmPending and before the adapter is hard reset. > In such a case the request is double freed once when the command > completes (interrupt gets delivered and mpt_reply releases request > frame), and once after the mpt_HardResetHandler. This results in > corruption of the linked list of empty request frames and causes a oops > on next list access. > > The patch below attempts to fix this race by freeing the request_frame > before mpt_HardReset and doing that atomically after checking for > tmPending value. Also the mptscsih_taskmgmt_complete function returns > "1" irrespective of the tmPending value which results in always freeing > of the request frame from mpt_reply, so I have modified that function to > look at the tmPending value before returning. > > While I am at it, I have also added a BUG_ON statement in > mpt_free_msg_frame to check for double free, instead of silently > corrupting the list. > > Please consider the patch below for inclusion. > > > Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c | 11 ++++------- > drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.h | 10 +++++++++- > drivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++---- > 3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) > > > diff --git a/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c b/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c > index 5d496a9..a1637bf 100644 > --- a/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c > +++ b/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c > @@ -974,7 +974,7 @@ mpt_put_msg_frame_hi_pri(u8 cb_idx, MPT_ADAPTER *ioc, MPT_FRAME_HDR *mf) > > /*=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=*/ > /** > - * mpt_free_msg_frame - Place MPT request frame back on FreeQ. > + * __mpt_free_msg_frame - Place MPT request frame back on FreeQ. > * @ioc: Pointer to MPT adapter structure > * @mf: Pointer to MPT request frame > * > @@ -982,18 +982,15 @@ mpt_put_msg_frame_hi_pri(u8 cb_idx, MPT_ADAPTER *ioc, MPT_FRAME_HDR *mf) > * FreeQ. > */ > void > -mpt_free_msg_frame(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc, MPT_FRAME_HDR *mf) > +__mpt_free_msg_frame(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc, MPT_FRAME_HDR *mf) > { > - unsigned long flags; > - > + BUG_ON(mf->u.frame.linkage.arg1 == 0xdeadbeaf); > /* Put Request back on FreeQ! */ > - spin_lock_irqsave(&ioc->FreeQlock, flags); > mf->u.frame.linkage.arg1 = 0xdeadbeaf; /* signature to know if this mf is freed */ > list_add_tail(&mf->u.frame.linkage.list, &ioc->FreeQ); > #ifdef MFCNT > ioc->mfcnt--; > #endif > - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ioc->FreeQlock, flags); > } > > /*=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=*/ > @@ -7612,7 +7609,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mpt_device_driver_deregister); > EXPORT_SYMBOL(mpt_get_msg_frame); > EXPORT_SYMBOL(mpt_put_msg_frame); > EXPORT_SYMBOL(mpt_put_msg_frame_hi_pri); > -EXPORT_SYMBOL(mpt_free_msg_frame); > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__mpt_free_msg_frame); > EXPORT_SYMBOL(mpt_add_sge); > EXPORT_SYMBOL(mpt_send_handshake_request); > EXPORT_SYMBOL(mpt_verify_adapter); > diff --git a/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.h b/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.h > index b3e981d..4e4ee53 100644 > --- a/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.h > +++ b/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.h > @@ -906,7 +906,7 @@ extern void mpt_reset_deregister(u8 cb_idx); > extern int mpt_device_driver_register(struct mpt_pci_driver * dd_cbfunc, u8 cb_idx); > extern void mpt_device_driver_deregister(u8 cb_idx); > extern MPT_FRAME_HDR *mpt_get_msg_frame(u8 cb_idx, MPT_ADAPTER *ioc); > -extern void mpt_free_msg_frame(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc, MPT_FRAME_HDR *mf); > +extern void __mpt_free_msg_frame(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc, MPT_FRAME_HDR *mf); > extern void mpt_put_msg_frame(u8 cb_idx, MPT_ADAPTER *ioc, MPT_FRAME_HDR *mf); > extern void mpt_put_msg_frame_hi_pri(u8 cb_idx, MPT_ADAPTER *ioc, MPT_FRAME_HDR *mf); > extern void mpt_add_sge(char *pAddr, u32 flagslength, dma_addr_t dma_addr); > @@ -924,6 +924,14 @@ extern int mptbase_sas_persist_operation(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc, u8 persist_opcode); > extern int mpt_raid_phys_disk_pg0(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc, u8 phys_disk_num, pRaidPhysDiskPage0_t phys_disk); > extern void mpt_halt_firmware(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc); > > +static inline void > +mpt_free_msg_frame(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc, MPT_FRAME_HDR *mf) > +{ > + unsigned long flags; > + spin_lock_irqsave(&ioc->FreeQlock, flags); > + __mpt_free_msg_frame(ioc, mf); > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ioc->FreeQlock, flags); > +} > > /* > * Public data decl's... > diff --git a/drivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c b/drivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c > index e62c6bc..afe7fc0 100644 > --- a/drivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c > +++ b/drivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c > @@ -1719,6 +1719,18 @@ mptscsih_IssueTaskMgmt(MPT_SCSI_HOST *hd, u8 type, u8 channel, u8 id, int lun, i > } > > if(mptscsih_tm_wait_for_completion(hd, timeout) == FAILED) { > + unsigned long flags; > + > + spin_lock_irqsave(&ioc->FreeQlock, flags); > + if(hd->tmPending == 0) { > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ioc->FreeQlock, flags); > + goto out_success; > + } > + __mpt_free_msg_frame(ioc, mf); > + hd->tmPending = 0; > + hd->tmState = TM_STATE_NONE; > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ioc->FreeQlock, flags); > + > dfailprintk(ioc, printk(MYIOC_s_ERR_FMT "task management request TIMED OUT!" > " (hd %p, ioc %p, mf %p) \n", ioc->name, hd, > ioc, mf)); > @@ -1727,9 +1739,10 @@ mptscsih_IssueTaskMgmt(MPT_SCSI_HOST *hd, u8 type, u8 channel, u8 id, int lun, i > retval = mpt_HardResetHandler(ioc, CAN_SLEEP); > dtmprintk(ioc, printk(MYIOC_s_DEBUG_FMT "rc=%d \n", > ioc->name, retval)); > - goto fail_out; > + return FAILED; > } > > +out_success: > /* > * Handle success case, see if theres a non-zero ioc_status. > */ > @@ -2159,6 +2172,7 @@ mptscsih_taskmgmt_complete(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc, MPT_FRAME_HDR *mf, MPT_FRAME_HDR *m > u16 iocstatus; > u8 tmType; > u32 termination_count; > + int retval = 1; > > dtmprintk(ioc, printk(MYIOC_s_DEBUG_FMT "TaskMgmt completed (mf=%p,mr=%p)\n", > ioc->name, mf, mr)); > @@ -2235,12 +2249,15 @@ mptscsih_taskmgmt_complete(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc, MPT_FRAME_HDR *mf, MPT_FRAME_HDR *m > > out: > spin_lock_irqsave(&ioc->FreeQlock, flags); > - hd->tmPending = 0; > - hd->tmState = TM_STATE_NONE; > + if (hd->tmPending) { > + hd->tmPending = 0; > + hd->tmState = TM_STATE_NONE; > + } else > + retval = 0; > hd->tm_iocstatus = iocstatus; > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ioc->FreeQlock, flags); > > - return 1; > + return retval; > } > > /*=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=*/ > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html