iscsi-target: Fix missed wakeup race in TX thread
authorRoland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:16:46 +0000 (09:16 -0700)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:47:07 +0000 (16:47 +0000)
commit620cc1df7f260855bfa05f56483ced4be702d57b
treefbb17d6850329576ad7976eed77ef4ae61d6eb9e
parentca8b38a5d0489f39245404acea9a1524b29d1cbb
iscsi-target: Fix missed wakeup race in TX thread

commit d5627acba9ae584cf4928af19f7ddf5f6837de32 upstream.

The sleeping code in iscsi_target_tx_thread() is susceptible to the classic
missed wakeup race:

 - TX thread finishes handle_immediate_queue() and handle_response_queue(),
   thinks both queues are empty.
 - Another thread adds a queue entry and does wake_up_process(), which does
   nothing because the TX thread is still awake.
 - TX thread does schedule_timeout() and sleeps forever.

In practice this can kill an iSCSI connection if for example an initiator
does single-threaded writes and the target misses the wakeup window when
queueing an R2T; in this case the connection will be stuck until the
initiator loses patience and does some task management operation (or kills
the connection entirely).

Fix this by converting to wait_event_interruptible(), which does not
suffer from this sort of race.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Cc: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_core.h
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.c
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_util.c
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_util.h