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authorChandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>2008-10-01 14:39:27 +0100
committerAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>2008-10-01 14:39:27 +0100
commit7253a33434245ee8243897559188186df65f3611 (patch)
tree24156c85ddd38319ab92ae56a5c585c0f2e273cc /drivers/md
parentb01cd5ac43b00c49759c126c21e7d22c7e80b245 (diff)
downloadlinux-7253a33434245ee8243897559188186df65f3611.tar.bz2
dm mpath: add missing path switching locking
Moving the path activation to workqueue along with scsi_dh patches introduced a race. It is due to the fact that the current_pgpath (in the multipath data structure) can be modified if changes happen in any of the paths leading to the lun. If the changes lead to current_pgpath being set to NULL, then it leads to the invalid access which results in the panic below. This patch fixes that by storing the pgpath to activate in the multipath data structure and properly protecting it. Note that if activate_path is called twice in succession with different pgpath, with the second one being called before the first one is done, then activate path will be called twice for the second pgpath, which is fine. Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000020 Faulting instruction address: 0xd000000000aa1844 cpu 0x1: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c00000006b987a80] pc: d000000000aa1844: .activate_path+0x30/0x218 [dm_multipath] lr: c000000000087a2c: .run_workqueue+0x114/0x204 sp: c00000006b987d00 msr: 8000000000009032 dar: 20 dsisr: 40000000 current = 0xc0000000676bb3f0 paca = 0xc0000000006f3680 pid = 2528, comm = kmpath_handlerd enter ? for help [c00000006b987da0] c000000000087a2c .run_workqueue+0x114/0x204 [c00000006b987e40] c000000000088b58 .worker_thread+0x120/0x144 [c00000006b987f00] c00000000008ca70 .kthread+0x78/0xc4 [c00000006b987f90] c000000000027cc8 .kernel_thread+0x4c/0x68 Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/dm-mpath.c16
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
index 71dd65aa31b6..c2fcf28b4c70 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ struct multipath {
const char *hw_handler_name;
struct work_struct activate_path;
+ struct pgpath *pgpath_to_activate;
unsigned nr_priority_groups;
struct list_head priority_groups;
unsigned pg_init_required; /* pg_init needs calling? */
@@ -146,6 +147,7 @@ static struct priority_group *alloc_priority_group(void)
static void free_pgpaths(struct list_head *pgpaths, struct dm_target *ti)
{
+ unsigned long flags;
struct pgpath *pgpath, *tmp;
struct multipath *m = ti->private;
@@ -154,6 +156,10 @@ static void free_pgpaths(struct list_head *pgpaths, struct dm_target *ti)
if (m->hw_handler_name)
scsi_dh_detach(bdev_get_queue(pgpath->path.dev->bdev));
dm_put_device(ti, pgpath->path.dev);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&m->lock, flags);
+ if (m->pgpath_to_activate == pgpath)
+ m->pgpath_to_activate = NULL;
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&m->lock, flags);
free_pgpath(pgpath);
}
}
@@ -421,6 +427,7 @@ static void process_queued_ios(struct work_struct *work)
__choose_pgpath(m);
pgpath = m->current_pgpath;
+ m->pgpath_to_activate = m->current_pgpath;
if ((pgpath && !m->queue_io) ||
(!pgpath && !m->queue_if_no_path))
@@ -1093,8 +1100,15 @@ static void activate_path(struct work_struct *work)
int ret;
struct multipath *m =
container_of(work, struct multipath, activate_path);
- struct dm_path *path = &m->current_pgpath->path;
+ struct dm_path *path;
+ unsigned long flags;
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&m->lock, flags);
+ path = &m->pgpath_to_activate->path;
+ m->pgpath_to_activate = NULL;
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&m->lock, flags);
+ if (!path)
+ return;
ret = scsi_dh_activate(bdev_get_queue(path->dev->bdev));
pg_init_done(path, ret);
}