nvme-multipath: fix possible I/O hang when paths are updated
authorAnton Eidelman <anton@lightbitslabs.com>
Mon, 12 Aug 2019 20:00:36 +0000 (23:00 +0300)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Tue, 20 Aug 2019 17:02:10 +0000 (11:02 -0600)
commit504db087aaccdb32af61539916409f7dca31ceb5
treec33bb26ea03fc7350dd0fd6ac2b23bd93ab8ae99
parent500f9fbadef86466a435726192f4ca4df7d94236
nvme-multipath: fix possible I/O hang when paths are updated

nvme_state_set_live() making a path available triggers requeue_work
in order to resubmit requests that ended up on requeue_list when no
paths were available.

This requeue_work may race with concurrent nvme_ns_head_make_request()
that do not observe the live path yet.
Such concurrent requests may by made by either:
- New IO submission.
- Requeue_work triggered by nvme_failover_req() or another ana_work.

A race may cause requeue_work capture the state of requeue_list before
more requests get onto the list. These requests will stay on the list
forever unless requeue_work is triggered again.

In order to prevent such race, nvme_state_set_live() should
synchronize_srcu(&head->srcu) before triggering the requeue_work and
prevent nvme_ns_head_make_request referencing an old snapshot of the
path list.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anton Eidelman <anton@lightbitslabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c