RE: [PATCH] csiostor:Fix backwards locking in the function __csio_unreg_rnode

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicholas Krause [mailto:xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2015 10:09 AM
> To: JBottomley@xxxxxxxx
> Cc: hare@xxxxxxx; michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx; davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Anish
> Bhatt; Hariprasad S; linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PATCH] csiostor:Fix backwards locking in the function
> __csio_unreg_rnode
> 
> This fixes backwards locking in the function __csio_unreg_rnode to properly
> lock before the call to the function csio_unreg_rnode and not unlock with
> spin_unlock_irq as this would not allow the proper protection for concurrent
> access on the shared csio_hw structure pointer hw. In addition switch the
> locking after the critical region function call to properly unlock instead with
> spin_unlock_irq on the shared structure pointer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_rnode.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_rnode.c
> b/drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_rnode.c
> index e9c3b04..029a09e 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_rnode.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_rnode.c
> @@ -580,9 +580,9 @@ __csio_unreg_rnode(struct csio_rnode *rn)
>  		ln->last_scan_ntgts--;
>  	}
> 
> -	spin_unlock_irq(&hw->lock);
> -	csio_unreg_rnode(rn);
>  	spin_lock_irq(&hw->lock);
> +	csio_unreg_rnode(rn);
> +	spin_unlock_irq(&hw->lock);
> 
>  	/* Cleanup I/Os that were waiting for rnode to unregister */
>  	if (cmpl)
> --
> 2.1.4

NACK, function is called with lock held.
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