Thread (68 messages) 68 messages, 4 authors, 2015-10-01

Re: [PATCH v4 30/32] cxlflash: Fix to avoid corrupting adapter fops

From: Daniel Axtens <hidden>
Date: 2015-09-30 00:18:19
Also in: linux-scsi

"Matthew R. Ochs" [off-list ref] writes:
The corruption that this fix remedies is due to the fact that the fops
is initially defaulted to values found within a static structure. When
the fops is handed down to the CXL services later in the attach path,
certain services are patched. The fops structure remains correct until
the user count drops to 0 and the fops is reset, triggering the process
to repeat again. The user counts are tightly coupled with the creation
and deletion of the user context. If multiple users perform a disk
attach at the same time, when the user count is currently 0, some users
can be in the middle of obtaining a file descriptor and have not yet
reached the context creation code that [in addition to creating the
context] increments the user count. Subsequent users coming in to
perform the attach see that the user count is still 0, and reinitialize
the fops, temporarily removing the patched fops. The users that are in
the middle obtaining their file descriptor may then receive an invalid
descriptor.

The fix simply removes the user count altogether and moves the fops
initialization to probe time such that it is only performed one time
for the life of the adapter. In the future, if the CXL services adopt
a private member for their context, that could be used to store the
adapter structure reference and cxlflash could revert to a model that
does not require an embedded fops.
Yep, this looks good.

We have discussed adding a private data field to a cxl context, and will
no doubt revisit the question at some point in the future :)

Reviewed-by: Daniel Axtens <redacted>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar <redacted>
---
 drivers/scsi/cxlflash/common.h    |  3 +--
 drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c      |  1 +
 drivers/scsi/cxlflash/superpipe.c | 11 +----------
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/common.h b/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/common.h
index bbfe711..c11cd19 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/common.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/common.h
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include <scsi/scsi.h>
 #include <scsi/scsi_device.h>
 
+extern const struct file_operations cxlflash_cxl_fops;
 
 #define MAX_CONTEXT  CXLFLASH_MAX_CONTEXT       /* num contexts per afu */
 
@@ -115,8 +116,6 @@ struct cxlflash_cfg {
 	struct list_head ctx_err_recovery; /* contexts w/ recovery pending */
 	struct file_operations cxl_fops;
 
-	atomic_t num_user_contexts;
-
 	/* Parameters that are LUN table related */
 	int last_lun_index[CXLFLASH_NUM_FC_PORTS];
 	int promote_lun_index;
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c b/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c
index be78906..38e7edc 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c
@@ -2386,6 +2386,7 @@ static int cxlflash_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 
 	cfg->init_state = INIT_STATE_NONE;
 	cfg->dev = pdev;
+	cfg->cxl_fops = cxlflash_cxl_fops;
 
 	/*
 	 * The promoted LUNs move to the top of the LUN table. The rest stay
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/superpipe.c b/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/superpipe.c
index 3cc8609..f625e07 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/superpipe.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/superpipe.c
@@ -712,7 +712,6 @@ static void destroy_context(struct cxlflash_cfg *cfg,
 	kfree(ctxi->rht_needs_ws);
 	kfree(ctxi->rht_lun);
 	kfree(ctxi);
-	atomic_dec_if_positive(&cfg->num_user_contexts);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -769,7 +768,6 @@ static struct ctx_info *create_context(struct cxlflash_cfg *cfg,
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ctxi->luns);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ctxi->list); /* initialize for list_empty() */
 
-	atomic_inc(&cfg->num_user_contexts);
 	mutex_lock(&ctxi->mutex);
 out:
 	return ctxi;
@@ -1164,10 +1162,7 @@ out:
 	return rc;
 }
 
-/*
- * Local fops for adapter file descriptor
- */
-static const struct file_operations cxlflash_cxl_fops = {
+const struct file_operations cxlflash_cxl_fops = {
 	.owner = THIS_MODULE,
 	.mmap = cxlflash_cxl_mmap,
 	.release = cxlflash_cxl_release,
@@ -1286,10 +1281,6 @@ static int cxlflash_disk_attach(struct scsi_device *sdev,
 
 	int fd = -1;
 
-	/* On first attach set fileops */
-	if (atomic_read(&cfg->num_user_contexts) == 0)
-		cfg->cxl_fops = cxlflash_cxl_fops;
-
 	if (attach->num_interrupts > 4) {
 		dev_dbg(dev, "%s: Cannot support this many interrupts %llu\n",
 			__func__, attach->num_interrupts);
-- 
2.1.0

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