This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: libiscsi: add lock around task lists to fix list corruption regression to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: scsi-libiscsi-add-lock-around-task-lists-to-fix-list-corruption-regression.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 6f8830f5bbab16e54f261de187f3df4644a5b977 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Leech <cleech@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 16:58:36 -0800 Subject: scsi: libiscsi: add lock around task lists to fix list corruption regression From: Chris Leech <cleech@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 6f8830f5bbab16e54f261de187f3df4644a5b977 upstream. There's a rather long standing regression from the commit "libiscsi: Reduce locking contention in fast path" Depending on iSCSI target behavior, it's possible to hit the case in iscsi_complete_task where the task is still on a pending list (!list_empty(&task->running)). When that happens the task is removed from the list while holding the session back_lock, but other task list modification occur under the frwd_lock. That leads to linked list corruption and eventually a panicked system. Rather than back out the session lock split entirely, in order to try and keep some of the performance gains this patch adds another lock to maintain the task lists integrity. Major enterprise supported kernels have been backing out the lock split for while now, thanks to the efforts at IBM where a lab setup has the most reliable reproducer I've seen on this issue. This patch has been tested there successfully. Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <cleech@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 659743b02c41 ("[SCSI] libiscsi: Reduce locking contention in fast path") Reported-by: Prashantha Subbarao <psubbara@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++- include/scsi/libiscsi.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c @@ -560,8 +560,12 @@ static void iscsi_complete_task(struct i WARN_ON_ONCE(task->state == ISCSI_TASK_FREE); task->state = state; - if (!list_empty(&task->running)) + spin_lock_bh(&conn->taskqueuelock); + if (!list_empty(&task->running)) { + pr_debug_once("%s while task on list", __func__); list_del_init(&task->running); + } + spin_unlock_bh(&conn->taskqueuelock); if (conn->task == task) conn->task = NULL; @@ -783,7 +787,9 @@ __iscsi_conn_send_pdu(struct iscsi_conn if (session->tt->xmit_task(task)) goto free_task; } else { + spin_lock_bh(&conn->taskqueuelock); list_add_tail(&task->running, &conn->mgmtqueue); + spin_unlock_bh(&conn->taskqueuelock); iscsi_conn_queue_work(conn); } @@ -1474,8 +1480,10 @@ void iscsi_requeue_task(struct iscsi_tas * this may be on the requeue list already if the xmit_task callout * is handling the r2ts while we are adding new ones */ + spin_lock_bh(&conn->taskqueuelock); if (list_empty(&task->running)) list_add_tail(&task->running, &conn->requeue); + spin_unlock_bh(&conn->taskqueuelock); iscsi_conn_queue_work(conn); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(iscsi_requeue_task); @@ -1512,22 +1520,26 @@ static int iscsi_data_xmit(struct iscsi_ * only have one nop-out as a ping from us and targets should not * overflow us with nop-ins */ + spin_lock_bh(&conn->taskqueuelock); check_mgmt: while (!list_empty(&conn->mgmtqueue)) { conn->task = list_entry(conn->mgmtqueue.next, struct iscsi_task, running); list_del_init(&conn->task->running); + spin_unlock_bh(&conn->taskqueuelock); if (iscsi_prep_mgmt_task(conn, conn->task)) { /* regular RX path uses back_lock */ spin_lock_bh(&conn->session->back_lock); __iscsi_put_task(conn->task); spin_unlock_bh(&conn->session->back_lock); conn->task = NULL; + spin_lock_bh(&conn->taskqueuelock); continue; } rc = iscsi_xmit_task(conn); if (rc) goto done; + spin_lock_bh(&conn->taskqueuelock); } /* process pending command queue */ @@ -1535,19 +1547,24 @@ check_mgmt: conn->task = list_entry(conn->cmdqueue.next, struct iscsi_task, running); list_del_init(&conn->task->running); + spin_unlock_bh(&conn->taskqueuelock); if (conn->session->state == ISCSI_STATE_LOGGING_OUT) { fail_scsi_task(conn->task, DID_IMM_RETRY); + spin_lock_bh(&conn->taskqueuelock); continue; } rc = iscsi_prep_scsi_cmd_pdu(conn->task); if (rc) { if (rc == -ENOMEM || rc == -EACCES) { + spin_lock_bh(&conn->taskqueuelock); list_add_tail(&conn->task->running, &conn->cmdqueue); conn->task = NULL; + spin_unlock_bh(&conn->taskqueuelock); goto done; } else fail_scsi_task(conn->task, DID_ABORT); + spin_lock_bh(&conn->taskqueuelock); continue; } rc = iscsi_xmit_task(conn); @@ -1558,6 +1575,7 @@ check_mgmt: * we need to check the mgmt queue for nops that need to * be sent to aviod starvation */ + spin_lock_bh(&conn->taskqueuelock); if (!list_empty(&conn->mgmtqueue)) goto check_mgmt; } @@ -1577,12 +1595,15 @@ check_mgmt: conn->task = task; list_del_init(&conn->task->running); conn->task->state = ISCSI_TASK_RUNNING; + spin_unlock_bh(&conn->taskqueuelock); rc = iscsi_xmit_task(conn); if (rc) goto done; + spin_lock_bh(&conn->taskqueuelock); if (!list_empty(&conn->mgmtqueue)) goto check_mgmt; } + spin_unlock_bh(&conn->taskqueuelock); spin_unlock_bh(&conn->session->frwd_lock); return -ENODATA; @@ -1738,7 +1759,9 @@ int iscsi_queuecommand(struct Scsi_Host goto prepd_reject; } } else { + spin_lock_bh(&conn->taskqueuelock); list_add_tail(&task->running, &conn->cmdqueue); + spin_unlock_bh(&conn->taskqueuelock); iscsi_conn_queue_work(conn); } @@ -2897,6 +2920,7 @@ iscsi_conn_setup(struct iscsi_cls_sessio INIT_LIST_HEAD(&conn->mgmtqueue); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&conn->cmdqueue); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&conn->requeue); + spin_lock_init(&conn->taskqueuelock); INIT_WORK(&conn->xmitwork, iscsi_xmitworker); /* allocate login_task used for the login/text sequences */ --- a/include/scsi/libiscsi.h +++ b/include/scsi/libiscsi.h @@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ struct iscsi_conn { struct iscsi_task *task; /* xmit task in progress */ /* xmit */ + spinlock_t taskqueuelock; /* protects the next three lists */ struct list_head mgmtqueue; /* mgmt (control) xmit queue */ struct list_head cmdqueue; /* data-path cmd queue */ struct list_head requeue; /* tasks needing another run */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from cleech@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/scsi-libiscsi-add-lock-around-task-lists-to-fix-list-corruption-regression.patch