Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755439AbbFRRsv (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jun 2015 13:48:51 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f181.google.com ([209.85.223.181]:36202 "EHLO mail-ie0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752282AbbFRRsn (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jun 2015 13:48:43 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150618155932.GA1276@localhost.localdomain> References: <1434624230-25050-1-git-send-email-Parav.pandit@avagotech.com> <20150618155932.GA1276@localhost.localdomain> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 23:18:42 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] NVMe: Fixed race between nvme_thread & probe path. From: Parav Pandit To: Jon Derrick Cc: linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, Matthew Wilcox , Jens Axboe , Keith Busch , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2675 Lines: 62 On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Jon Derrick wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 04:13:50PM +0530, Parav Pandit wrote: >> Kernel thread nvme_thread and driver load process can be executing >> in parallel on different CPU. This leads to race condition whenever >> nvme_alloc_queue() instructions are executed out of order that can >> reflects incorrect value for nvme_thread. >> Memory barrier in nvme_alloc_queue() ensures that it maintains the >> order and and data dependency read barrier in reader thread ensures >> that cpu cache is synced. >> >> Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit >> --- >> drivers/block/nvme-core.c | 12 ++++++++++-- >> 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/block/nvme-core.c b/drivers/block/nvme-core.c >> index 5961ed7..90fb0ce 100644 >> --- a/drivers/block/nvme-core.c >> +++ b/drivers/block/nvme-core.c >> @@ -1403,8 +1403,10 @@ static struct nvme_queue *nvme_alloc_queue(struct nvme_dev *dev, int qid, >> nvmeq->q_db = &dev->dbs[qid * 2 * dev->db_stride]; >> nvmeq->q_depth = depth; >> nvmeq->qid = qid; >> - dev->queue_count++; >> dev->queues[qid] = nvmeq; >> + /* update queues first before updating queue_count */ >> + smp_wmb(); >> + dev->queue_count++; >> >> return nvmeq; >> > > This has been applied already as an explicit mb() Since these structure is only accessible by software, won't smp_wmb() sufficient enough? > >> @@ -2073,7 +2075,13 @@ static int nvme_kthread(void *data) >> continue; >> } >> for (i = 0; i < dev->queue_count; i++) { >> - struct nvme_queue *nvmeq = dev->queues[i]; >> + struct nvme_queue *nvmeq; >> + >> + /* make sure to read queue_count before >> + * traversing queues. >> + */ >> + smp_read_barrier_depends(); >> + nvmeq = dev->queues[i]; >> if (!nvmeq) >> continue; >> spin_lock_irq(&nvmeq->q_lock); > > I don't think this is necessary. If queue_count is incremented while in this loop, it will be picked up the next time the kthread runs ok. Make sense. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/