net/smc: Resolve the race between SMC-R link access and clear

We encountered some crashes caused by the race between SMC-R
link access and link clear that triggered by abnormal link
group termination, such as port error.

Here is an example of this kind of crashes:

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
 Workqueue: smc_hs_wq smc_listen_work [smc]
 RIP: 0010:smc_llc_flow_initiate+0x44/0x190 [smc]
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  ? __smc_buf_create+0x75a/0x950 [smc]
  smcr_lgr_reg_rmbs+0x2a/0xbf [smc]
  smc_listen_work+0xf72/0x1230 [smc]
  ? process_one_work+0x25c/0x600
  process_one_work+0x25c/0x600
  worker_thread+0x4f/0x3a0
  ? process_one_work+0x600/0x600
  kthread+0x15d/0x1a0
  ? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40
  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
  </TASK>

smc_listen_work()                     __smc_lgr_terminate()
---------------------------------------------------------------
                                    | smc_lgr_free()
                                    |  |- smcr_link_clear()
                                    |      |- memset(lnk, 0)
smc_listen_rdma_reg()               |
 |- smcr_lgr_reg_rmbs()             |
     |- smc_llc_flow_initiate()     |
         |- access lnk->lgr (panic) |

These crashes are similarly caused by clearing SMC-R link
resources when some functions is still accessing to them.
This patch tries to fix the issue by introducing reference
count of SMC-R links and ensuring that the sensitive resources
of links won't be cleared until reference count reaches zero.

The operation to the SMC-R link reference count can be concluded
as follows:

object          [hold or initialized as 1]         [put]
--------------------------------------------------------------------
links           smcr_link_init()                   smcr_link_clear()
connections     smc_conn_create()                  smc_conn_free()

Through this way, the clear of SMC-R links is later than the
free of all the smc connections above it, thus avoiding the
unsafe reference to SMC-R links.

Signed-off-by: Wen Gu <guwen@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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