Removing a SCSI target via scsi_remove_target() suspected to be racy. When a sibling get's removed from the list it can occassionly happen that one CPU is stuck endlessly looping around this code block list_for_each_entry(starget, &shost->__targets, siblings) { if (starget->state == STARGET_DEL) continue; Resulting in the following hard lockup. Kernel panic - not syncing: Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 0 [...] Call Trace: [<ffffffff8100471d>] dump_trace+0x7d/0x2d0 [<ffffffff81004a04>] show_stack_log_lvl+0x94/0x170 [<ffffffff81005cc1>] show_stack+0x21/0x50 [<ffffffff8151aa75>] dump_stack+0x41/0x51 [<ffffffff8151545a>] panic+0xc8/0x1d7 [<ffffffff810fbdda>] watchdog_overflow_callback+0xba/0xc0 [<ffffffff811336c8>] __perf_event_overflow+0x88/0x240 [<ffffffff8101e3aa>] intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x1fa/0x3e0 [<ffffffff81522836>] perf_event_nmi_handler+0x26/0x40 [<ffffffff81521fcd>] nmi_handle.isra.2+0x8d/0x180 [<ffffffff815221e6>] do_nmi+0x126/0x3c0 [<ffffffff8152159b>] end_repeat_nmi+0x1a/0x1e [<ffffffffa00212e8>] scsi_remove_target+0x68/0x240 [scsi_mod] [<ffffffff81072742>] process_one_work+0x172/0x420 [<ffffffff810733ba>] worker_thread+0x11a/0x3c0 [<ffffffff81079d34>] kthread+0xb4/0xc0 [<ffffffff81528cd8>] ret_from_fork+0x58/0x90 This patch decouples the list traversal for targets and the reaping of SCSI targets by moving to be removed targets to a separate reap list. Entries in this list can then be removed by the SCSI layer in a lockless manner. This was discovered by a partner in a 24h stress test. Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c index b333389..5d92cf56 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c @@ -1158,31 +1158,31 @@ static void __scsi_remove_target(struct scsi_target *starget) void scsi_remove_target(struct device *dev) { struct Scsi_Host *shost = dev_to_shost(dev->parent); - struct scsi_target *starget, *last = NULL; + struct scsi_target *starget, *tmp; unsigned long flags; + LIST_HEAD(reap_list); /* remove targets being careful to lookup next entry before * deleting the last */ spin_lock_irqsave(shost->host_lock, flags); - list_for_each_entry(starget, &shost->__targets, siblings) { + list_for_each_entry_safe(starget, tmp, &shost->__targets, siblings) { if (starget->state == STARGET_DEL) continue; if (starget->dev.parent == dev || &starget->dev == dev) { /* assuming new targets arrive at the end */ kref_get(&starget->reap_ref); spin_unlock_irqrestore(shost->host_lock, flags); - if (last) - scsi_target_reap(last); - last = starget; + __scsi_remove_target(starget); + list_move_tail(&starget->siblings, &reap_list); spin_lock_irqsave(shost->host_lock, flags); } } spin_unlock_irqrestore(shost->host_lock, flags); - if (last) - scsi_target_reap(last); + list_for_each_entry_safe(starget, tmp, &reap_list, siblings) + scsi_target_reap(starget); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(scsi_remove_target); -- 2.5.0 -- 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