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Commit 296ab4a8 authored by Dominique Martinet's avatar Dominique Martinet
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net/9p: use a dedicated spinlock for trans_fd



Shamelessly copying the explanation from Tetsuo Handa's suggested
patch[1] (slightly reworded):
syzbot is reporting inconsistent lock state in p9_req_put()[2],
for p9_tag_remove() from p9_req_put() from IRQ context is using
spin_lock_irqsave() on "struct p9_client"->lock but trans_fd
(not from IRQ context) is using spin_lock().

Since the locks actually protect different things in client.c and in
trans_fd.c, just replace trans_fd.c's lock by a new one specific to the
transport (client.c's protect the idr for fid/tag allocations,
while trans_fd.c's protects its own req list and request status field
that acts as the transport's state machine)

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220904112928.1308799-1-asmadeus@codewreck.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2470e028-9b05-2013-7198-1fdad071d999@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp [1]
Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=2f20b523930c32c160cc [2]
Reported-by: default avatarsyzbot <syzbot+2f20b523930c32c160cc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Reported-by: default avatarTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@crudebyte.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
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