This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
iscsi-target: fix iscsit_del_np deadlock on unload
to the 3.15-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:
iscsi-target-fix-iscsit_del_np-deadlock-on-unload.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 81a9c5e72bdf7109a65102ca61d8cbd722cf4021 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 13:42:37 -0400
Subject: iscsi-target: fix iscsit_del_np deadlock on unload
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 81a9c5e72bdf7109a65102ca61d8cbd722cf4021 upstream.
On uniprocessor preemptible kernel, target core deadlocks on unload. The
following events happen:
* iscsit_del_np is called
* it calls send_sig(SIGINT, np->np_thread, 1);
* the scheduler switches to the np_thread
* the np_thread is woken up, it sees that kthread_should_stop() returns
false, so it doesn't terminate
* the np_thread clears signals with flush_signals(current); and goes back
to sleep in iscsit_accept_np
* the scheduler switches back to iscsit_del_np
* iscsit_del_np calls kthread_stop(np->np_thread);
* the np_thread is waiting in iscsit_accept_np and it doesn't respond to
kthread_stop
The deadlock could be resolved if the administrator sends SIGINT signal to
the np_thread with killall -INT iscsi_np
The reproducible deadlock was introduced in commit
db6077fd0b7dd41dc6ff18329cec979379071f87, but the thread-stopping code was
racy even before.
This patch fixes the problem. Using kthread_should_stop to stop the
np_thread is unreliable, so we test np_thread_state instead. If
np_thread_state equals ISCSI_NP_THREAD_SHUTDOWN, the thread exits.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.c | 13 +++++++------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.c
+++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.c
@@ -1216,7 +1216,7 @@ old_sess_out:
static int __iscsi_target_login_thread(struct iscsi_np *np)
{
u8 *buffer, zero_tsih = 0;
- int ret = 0, rc, stop;
+ int ret = 0, rc;
struct iscsi_conn *conn = NULL;
struct iscsi_login *login;
struct iscsi_portal_group *tpg = NULL;
@@ -1230,6 +1230,9 @@ static int __iscsi_target_login_thread(s
if (np->np_thread_state == ISCSI_NP_THREAD_RESET) {
np->np_thread_state = ISCSI_NP_THREAD_ACTIVE;
complete(&np->np_restart_comp);
+ } else if (np->np_thread_state == ISCSI_NP_THREAD_SHUTDOWN) {
+ spin_unlock_bh(&np->np_thread_lock);
+ goto exit;
} else {
np->np_thread_state = ISCSI_NP_THREAD_ACTIVE;
}
@@ -1422,10 +1425,8 @@ old_sess_out:
}
out:
- stop = kthread_should_stop();
- /* Wait for another socket.. */
- if (!stop)
- return 1;
+ return 1;
+
exit:
iscsi_stop_login_thread_timer(np);
spin_lock_bh(&np->np_thread_lock);
@@ -1442,7 +1443,7 @@ int iscsi_target_login_thread(void *arg)
allow_signal(SIGINT);
- while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
+ while (1) {
ret = __iscsi_target_login_thread(np);
/*
* We break and exit here unless another sock_accept() call
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.15/iscsi-target-fix-iscsit_del_np-deadlock-on-unload.patch
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