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authorRoland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>2011-08-27 21:33:16 -0700
committerNicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>2011-09-16 09:29:20 +0000
commitbcac364a24c894c4cf8cf219b7863c192cd34079 (patch)
tree121757157452bf6e546c53c0efd2a3d463f4aa2e /arch
parenta7f934d4f16144cb9521b62e9b8c9ac0118097da (diff)
target: Fix race between multiple invocations of target_qf_do_work()
When work is scheduled with schedule_work(), the work can end up running on multiple CPUs at the same time -- this happens if the work is already running on one CPU and schedule_work() is called on another CPU. This leads to list corruption with target_qf_do_work(), which is roughly doing: spin_lock(...); list_for_each_entry_safe(...) { list_del(...); spin_unlock(...); // do stuff spin_lock(...); } With multiple CPUs running this code, one CPU can end up deleting the list entry that the other CPU is about to work on. Fix this by splicing the list entries onto a local list and then operating on that in the work function. This way, each invocation of target_qf_do_work() operates on its own local list and so multiple invocations don't corrupt each other's list. This also avoids dropping and reacquiring the lock for each list entry. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
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