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Commit 8908f36d authored by Julian Wiedmann's avatar Julian Wiedmann Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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s390/qeth: fix af_iucv notification race

The two expected notification sequences are
1. TX_NOTIFY_PENDING with a subsequent TX_NOTIFY_DELAYED_*, when
   our TX completion code first observed the pending TX and the QAOB
   then completes at a later time; or
2. TX_NOTIFY_OK, when qeth_qdio_handle_aob() picked up the QAOB
   completion before our TX completion code even noticed that the TX
   was pending.

But as qeth_iqd_tx_complete() and qeth_qdio_handle_aob() can run
concurrently, we may end up with a race that results in a sequence of
TX_NOTIFY_DELAYED_* followed by TX_NOTIFY_PENDING. Which would confuse
the af_iucv code in its tracking of pending transmits.

Rework the notification code, so that qeth_qdio_handle_aob() defers its
notification if the TX completion code is still active.

Fixes: b3332930

 ("qeth: add support for af_iucv HiperSockets transport")
Signed-off-by: default avatarJulian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent 34c7f50f
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