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qla2xxx: added sess generations to detect RSCN update races
authorAlexei Potashnik <alexei@purestorage.com>
Tue, 14 Jul 2015 20:00:46 +0000 (16:00 -0400)
committerBrian Maly <brian.maly@oracle.com>
Thu, 2 Nov 2017 18:14:13 +0000 (14:14 -0400)
commit09f0637fb1bde3b188f8c315ad9ce553cf2ca01d
tree06b5c8c6a47e1a69ae666f8afca784f55ff494dc
parent81ac1327708c6d7d10c4f45808ef928685d19cf4
qla2xxx: added sess generations to detect RSCN update races

Orabug: 2684419726923029

RSCN processing in qla2xxx driver can run in parallel with ELS/IO
processing. As such the decision to remove disappeared fc port's
session could be stale, because a new login sequence has occurred
since and created a brand new session.

Previous mechanism of dealing with this by delaying deletion request
was prone to erroneous deletions if the event that was supposed to
cancel the deletion never arrived or has been delayed in processing.

New mechanism relies on a time-like generation counter to serialize
RSCN updates relative to ELS/IO updates.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.18+
Signed-off-by: Alexei Potashnik <alexei@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Maly <brian.maly@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jack Vogel <jack.vogel@oracle.com>
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_dbg.c
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_def.h
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_target.c
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_target.h