Re: target crashes with vSphere 6 hosts

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On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 18:33 +0000, Quinn Tran wrote:
> Roland,
> 
> The BUG_ON in this code area is sign of early free and/or double free
> that is triggered in the LUN Reset path.  The cmd_kref is being
> decrement too fast.  In this case it looks like the cmd is on the way
> to be free (i.e. 2nd free), while a new incarnation of the command is
> being schedule to do new work.  The cmd_in_wq flag tells us that the
> work element was scheduled or in the work queue by the new
> incarnation.  The early free of the command was triggered in TCM.
> 
> Please take a look at the following patches that Nicholas has
> submitted and Qlogic’s attempted to submit in the past.  The "qla2xxx:
> Fix interaction issue between qla2xxx and Target Core Module” patch
> was asked to drop because it did not fit Bart’s implementation.
> 
> 
> QLogic’s patch
> [PATCH v2 08/16] qla2xxx: Replace QLA_TGT_STATE_ABORTED with a bit.
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=145038473432645&w=2
> 
> [PATCH 10/20] qla2xxx: Fix interaction issue between qla2xxx and Target Core Module 
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=144953818431730&w=2
> 
> 
> 
> Nicholas’s Patch series or just patch 1 in the series.
> 
> [PATCH 0/2] target: Fix LUN_RESET active I/O + TMR handling 
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=145259439425172&w=2
> 
> [PATCH 1/2] target: Fix LUN_RESET active I/O handling for ACK_KREF 
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=145259452525227&w=2
> 
> 
> 
> ----
> 
> Nicholas,
> 
> Please consider "[PATCH 10/20] qla2xxx: Fix interaction issue between
> qla2xxx and Target Core Module” patch for the older branch or
> Pre-Bart.  Thanks.
> 

Thanks Quinn.

AFAICT, the QUEUE_FULL + tcm_qla2xxx_aborted_task() parts of this patch
are needed as separate driver bug-fixes, beyond the TCM multi-port
LUN_RESET fixes mentioned above.

That said, I've applied this patch to target-pending/master as-is, minus
the extra kref debug as originally mentioned by HCH:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending.git/commit/?id=76dce933117e150ea9ddbce7c279808ec316a20a

Please review.

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