[SCSI] bnx2i: Fixed kernel panic due to illegal usage of sc->request->cpu
A kernel panic was observed when passing the sc->request->cpu = -1 to retrieve the per_cpu variable pointer: #0 [ffff880011203960] machine_kexec at ffffffff81022bc3 #1 [ffff8800112039b0] crash_kexec at ffffffff81088630 #2 [ffff880011203a80] __die at ffffffff8139ea20 #3 [ffff880011203aa0] no_context at ffffffff8102f3a7 #4 [ffff880011203ae0] __bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff8102f665 #5 [ffff880011203ba0] retint_signal at ffffffff8139dd1f #6 [ffff880011203cc8] bnx2i_indicate_kcqe at ffffffffa03dc4f2 #7 [ffff880011203da8] service_kcqes at ffffffffa03cb04f #8 [ffff880011203e68] cnic_service_bnx2x_kcq at ffffffffa03cb14a #9 [ffff880011203e88] cnic_service_bnx2x_bh at ffffffffa03cb1b3 The problem lies in the slow path sg_io (and perhaps sg_scsi_ioctl) call to blk_get_request->get_request/wait->blk_alloc_request->blk_rq_init which re-initializes the request->cpu to -1. There is no assignment for cpu from that to the request_fn call to low level drivers. When this happens, the sc->request->cpu will be using the init value of -1. This will create a kernel panic when it hits bnx2i because the code refers it to get the per_cpu variables ptr. This change is to put in a guard against that and also for cases when bio affinity/queue completion to the same cpu is not enabled. In those cases, the request->cpu will remain a -1 also. This bug was created from commit: b5cf6b63 For the case when the blk layer did not setup the request->cpu, bnx2i will complete the sc with the current CPU of the thread. Signed-off-by: Eddie Wai <eddie.wai@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
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