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Commit b6f80773 authored by James Smart's avatar James Smart Committed by Christoph Hellwig
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nvme_fcloop: refactor host/target io job access



The split between what the host accesses on its flows vs what the
target side accesses was flawed. Abort handling didn't properly
clear initiator vs target structure cross-reference and locks
weren't used for synchronization. Thus, there were issues of
freeing structures too soon and access after free.

A couple of these existed pre the IN_ISR mods, but when the
target upcalls were converted to work items, thus adding delays
between the 2 sides of accesses, the problems became pronounced.

Resolve by:
- tracking io state mainly in the tgt-side io structure.
- make the tgt-side io structure released by reference not by
  code flow.
- when changing initiator structures, use locks for
  synchronization
- aborts are clearly tracked for which side saw the abort, and
  after seeing the abort, cross-references are cleared under lock.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
parent 24431d60
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