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Commit d19c4643 authored by Mike Christie's avatar Mike Christie Committed by Nicholas Bellinger
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target: Fix ALUA transition state race between multiple initiators



Multiple threads could be writing to alua_access_state at
the same time, or there could be multiple STPGs in flight
(different initiators sending them or one initiator sending
them to different ports), or a combo of both and the
core_alua_do_transition_tg_pt calls will race with each other.

Because from the last patches we no longer delay running
core_alua_do_transition_tg_pt_work, there does not seem to be
any point in running that in a workqueue. And, we always
wait for it to complete one way or another, so we can sleep
in this code path. So, this patch made over target-pending just adds a
mutex and does the work core_alua_do_transition_tg_pt_work was doing in
core_alua_do_transition_tg_pt.

There is also no need to use an atomic for the
tg_pt_gp_alua_access_state. In core_alua_do_transition_tg_pt we will
test and set it under the transition mutex. And, it is a int/32 bits
so in the other places where it is read, we will never see it partially
updated.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
parent 7a56dc88
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