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Commit 504130c0 authored by Ariel Nahum's avatar Ariel Nahum Committed by Roland Dreier
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IB/iser: Protect iser state machine with a mutex



The iser connection state lookups and transitions are not fully protected.

Some transitions are protected with a spinlock, and in some cases the
state is accessed unprotected due to specific assumptions of the flow.

Introduce a new mutex to protect the connection state access. We use a
mutex since we need to also include a scheduling operations executed
under the state lock.

Each state transition/condition and its corresponding action will be
protected with the state mutex.

The rdma_cm events handler acquires the mutex when handling connection
events. Since iser connection state can transition to DOWN
concurrently during connection establishment, we bailout from
addr/route resolution events when the state is not PENDING.

This addresses a scenario where ep_poll retries expire during CMA
connection establishment. In this case ep_disconnect is invoked while
CMA events keep coming (address/route resolution, connected, etc...).

Signed-off-by: default avatarAriel Nahum <arieln@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarOr Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
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