s390/ism: Fix and simplify add()/remove() callback handling
Previously the clients_lock was protecting the clients array against concurrent addition/removal of clients but was also accessed from IRQ context. This meant that it had to be a spinlock and that the add() and remove() callbacks in which clients need to do allocation and take mutexes can't be called under the clients_lock. To work around this these callbacks were moved to workqueues. This not only introduced significant complexity but is also subtly broken in at least one way. In ism_dev_init() and ism_dev_exit() clients[i]->tgt_ism is used to communicate the added/removed ISM device to the work function. While write access to client[i]->tgt_ism is protected by the clients_lock and the code waits that there is no pending add/remove work before and after setting clients[i]->tgt_ism this is not enough. The problem is that the wait happens based on per ISM device counters. Thus a concurrent ism_dev_init()/ism_dev_exit() for a different ISM device may overwrite a clients[i]->tgt_ism between unlocking the clients_lock and the subsequent wait for the work to finnish. Thankfully with the clients_lock no longer held in IRQ context it can be turned into a mutex which can be held during the calls to add()/remove() completely removing the need for the workqueues and the associated broken housekeeping including the per ISM device counters and the clients[i]->tgt_ism. Fixes: 89e7d2ba ("net/ism: Add new API for client registration") Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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