Re: [RFC PATCH] scsi: libsas: fix WARN on device removal

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 7:16 AM, John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> @Maintainers, would you be willing to accept this patch as an interim
>>>>> fix
>>>>> for the dastardly WARN while we try to fix the flutter issue?
>>>>
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>>>> To me this adds a bug to quiet a benign, albeit noisy, warning.
>>>>
>>>
>>> What is the bug which is being added?
>>
>>
>> The bug where we queue a port teardown, but see a port formation event
>> in the meantime.
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> As I understand, this vulnerability already exists:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=143801026028006&w=2
>
> I actually don't understand how libsas dealt with flutter (which I take to
> mean a burst of up and down events) before these changes, as it can only
> queue simultaneously one up and one down event per port. So, if we get a
> flutter, then the events are lost and we get indeterminate state.
>

The events are not lost.  The new problem this patch introduces is
delaying sas port deletion where it was previously immediate.  So now
we can get into a situation where the port has gone down and can start
processing a port up event before the previous deletion work has run.

>>
>>> And it's a very noisy warning, as in 6K lines on the console when an
>>> expander is unplugged.
>>
>>
>> Does something like this modulate the failure?

I'm curious if we simply need to fix the double deletion of the
sas_port bsg queue, could you try the changes below?

>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c
>> b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c            index
>> 60b651bfaa01..11401e5c88ba 100644
>>                  --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c
>> +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c
>> @@ -262,9 +262,10 @@ static void sas_bsg_remove(struct Scsi_Host
>> *shost, struct sas_rphy *rphy
>>  {
>>         struct request_queue *q;
>>
>> -       if (rphy)
>> +       if (rphy) {
>>                 q = rphy->q;
>> -       else
>> +               rphy->q = NULL;
>> +       } else
>>                 q = to_sas_host_attrs(shost)->q;
>>
>>         if (!q)
>>
>> .
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