Re: [PATCH 2/2] target: Fix target_wait_for_sess_cmds breakage with active signals

[Mike Christie]

On 10/09/2018 10:23 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> With the addition of commit 00d909a107 in v4.19-rc, it incorrectly assumes no
> signals will be pending for task_struct executing the normal session shutdown
> and I/O quiesce code-path.
> 
> For example, iscsi-target and iser-target issue SIGINT to all kthreads as
> part of session shutdown.  This has been the behaviour since day one.
> 
> As-is when signals are pending with se_cmds active in se_sess->sess_cmd_list,
> wait_event_interruptible_lock_irq_timeout() returns a negative number and
> immediately kills the machine because of the do while (ret <= 0) loop that
> was added in commit 00d909a107 to spin while backend I/O is taking any
> amount of extended time (say 30 seconds) to complete.
> 
> Here's what it looks like in action with debug plus delayed backend I/O
> completion:
> 
> [ 4951.909951] se_sess: 000000003e7e08fa before target_wait_for_sess_cmds
> [ 4951.914600] target_wait_for_sess_cmds: signal_pending: 1
> [ 4951.918015] wait_event_interruptible_lock_irq_timeout ret: -512 signal_pending: 1 loop count: 0
> [ 4951.921639] wait_event_interruptible_lock_irq_timeout ret: -512 signal_pending: 1 loop count: 1
> [ 4951.921944] wait_event_interruptible_lock_irq_timeout ret: -512 signal_pending: 1 loop count: 2
> [ 4951.921944] wait_event_interruptible_lock_irq_timeout ret: -512 signal_pending: 1 loop count: 3
> [ 4951.921944] wait_event_interruptible_lock_irq_timeout ret: -512 signal_pending: 1 loop count: 4
> [ 4951.921944] wait_event_interruptible_lock_irq_timeout ret: -512 signal_pending: 1 loop count: 5
> [ 4951.921944] wait_event_interruptible_lock_irq_timeout ret: -512 signal_pending: 1 loop count: 6
> [ 4951.921944] wait_event_interruptible_lock_irq_timeout ret: -512 signal_pending: 1 loop count: 7
> [ 4951.921944] wait_event_interruptible_lock_irq_timeout ret: -512 signal_pending: 1 loop count: 8
> [ 4951.921944] wait_event_interruptible_lock_irq_timeout ret: -512 signal_pending: 1 loop count: 9
> 
> ... followed by the usual RCU CPU stalls and deadlock.
> 
> There was never a case pre commit 00d909a107 where wait_for_complete(&se_cmd->cmd_wait_comp)
> was able to be interruptted, so to address this for v4.19+ moving forward go ahead and
> use wait_event_lock_irq_timeout() instead so new code works with all fabric drivers.
> 
> Also for commit 00d909a107, fix a minor regression in target_release_cmd_kref()
> to only wake_up the new se_sess->cmd_list_wq only when shutdown has actually
> been triggered via se_sess->sess_tearing_down.
> 
> Fixes: 00d909a107 ("scsi: target: Make the session shutdown code also wait for commands that are being aborted")
> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mike Christie <mchristi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/target/target_core_transport.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c b/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
> index 86c0156..fc3093d2 100644
> --- a/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
> +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
> @@ -2754,7 +2754,7 @@ static void target_release_cmd_kref(struct kref *kref)
>  	if (se_sess) {
>  		spin_lock_irqsave(&se_sess->sess_cmd_lock, flags);
>  		list_del_init(&se_cmd->se_cmd_list);
> -		if (list_empty(&se_sess->sess_cmd_list))
> +		if (se_sess->sess_tearing_down && list_empty(&se_sess->sess_cmd_list))

I think there is another issue with 00d909a107 and ibmvscsi_tgt.

The problem is that ibmvscsi_tgt never called
target_sess_cmd_list_set_waiting. It only called
target_wait_for_sess_cmds. So before 00d909a107 there was a bug in that
driver and target_wait_for_sess_cmds never did what was intended because
sess_wait_list would always be empty.

With 00d909a107, we no longer need to call
target_sess_cmd_list_set_waiting to wait for outstanding commands, so
for ibmvscsi_tgt will now wait for commands like we wanted. However, the
commit added a WARN_ON that is hit if target_sess_cmd_list_set_waiting
is not called, so we could hit that.

So I think we need to add a target_sess_cmd_list_set_waiting call in
ibmvscsi_tgt to go along with your patch chunk above and make sure we do
not trigger the WARN_ON.

>  			wake_up(&se_sess->cmd_list_wq);
>  		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&se_sess->sess_cmd_lock, flags);
>  	}
> @@ -2907,7 +2907,7 @@ void target_wait_for_sess_cmds(struct se_session *se_sess)
>  
>  	spin_lock_irq(&se_sess->sess_cmd_lock);
>  	do {
> -		ret = wait_event_interruptible_lock_irq_timeout(
> +		ret = wait_event_lock_irq_timeout(
>  				se_sess->cmd_list_wq,
>  				list_empty(&se_sess->sess_cmd_list),
>  				se_sess->sess_cmd_lock, 180 * HZ);
>