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Commit d5627acb authored by Roland Dreier's avatar Roland Dreier Committed by Nicholas Bellinger
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iscsi-target: Fix missed wakeup race in TX thread



The sleeping code in iscsi_target_tx_thread() is susceptible to the classic
missed wakeup race:

 - TX thread finishes handle_immediate_queue() and handle_response_queue(),
   thinks both queues are empty.
 - Another thread adds a queue entry and does wake_up_process(), which does
   nothing because the TX thread is still awake.
 - TX thread does schedule_timeout() and sleeps forever.

In practice this can kill an iSCSI connection if for example an initiator
does single-threaded writes and the target misses the wakeup window when
queueing an R2T; in this case the connection will be stuck until the
initiator loses patience and does some task management operation (or kills
the connection entirely).

Fix this by converting to wait_event_interruptible(), which does not
suffer from this sort of race.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Cc: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
parent 3e03989b
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