Re: [PATCH-v2 2/9] target/pr: Use atomic bitop for se_dev_entry->pr_reg reservation check

[Nicholas A. Bellinger]

On Fri, 2015-05-22 at 12:12 +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 05/22/15 08:11, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> > diff --git a/include/target/target_core_base.h b/include/target/target_core_base.h
> > index e2c0eaf..def5bc8 100644
> > --- a/include/target/target_core_base.h
> > +++ b/include/target/target_core_base.h
> > @@ -638,7 +638,6 @@ struct se_lun_acl {
> >   };
> >
> >   struct se_dev_entry {
> > -	bool			def_pr_registered;
> >   	/* See transport_lunflags_table */
> >   	u32			lun_flags;
> >   	u32			mapped_lun;
> > @@ -655,7 +654,8 @@ struct se_dev_entry {
> >   	struct se_node_acl	*se_node_acl;
> >   	struct se_lun_acl __rcu	*se_lun_acl;
> >   	spinlock_t		ua_lock;
> > -	struct se_lun		*se_lun;
> > +	struct se_lun __rcu	*se_lun;
> > +	unsigned long		pr_reg;
> >   	struct list_head	alua_port_list;
> >   	struct list_head	ua_list;
> >   	struct hlist_node	link;
> 
> Hello Nic,
> 
> This change causes the "se_lun = deve->se_lun" assignment in 
> transport_lookup_cmd_lun() to assign an RCU pointer to a non-RCU 
> pointer. Shouldn't such an assignment be protected via rcu_dereference() ?
> 

FYI, these assignments are done in patch #1.

This __rcu notation should be included there instead.

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