Re: [PATCH v4 28/43] hpsa: don't return abort request until target is complete

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On 04/16/2015 03:49 PM, Don Brace wrote:
> From: Webb Scales <webbnh@xxxxxx>
>
> Don't return from the abort request until the target command is complete.
> Mark outstanding commands which have a pending abort, and do not send them
> to the host if we can avoid it.
>
> If the current command has been aborted, do not call the SCSI command
> completion routine from the I/O path: when the abort returns successfully,
> the SCSI mid-layer will handle the completion implicitly.
>
> The following race was possible in theory.
>
> 1. LLD is requested to abort a scsi command
> 2. scsi command completes
> 3. The struct CommandList associated with 2 is made available.
> 4. new io request to LLD to another LUN re-uses struct CommandList
> 5. abort handler follows scsi_cmnd->host_scribble and
>    finds struct CommandList and tries to aborts it.
>
> Now we have aborted the wrong command.
>
> Fix by resetting the scsi_cmd field of struct CommandList
> upon completion and making the abort handler check that
> the scsi_cmd pointer in the CommadList struct matches the
> scsi_cmnd that it has been asked to abort.
>
> Reviewed-by: Scott Teel <scott.teel@xxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Kevin Barnett <kevin.barnett@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Webb Scales <webbnh@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Don Brace <don.brace@xxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@xxxxxxxxxx>

Tomas


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