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authorChandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>2008-10-01 14:39:27 +0100
committerAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>2008-10-01 14:39:27 +0100
commit7253a33434245ee8243897559188186df65f3611 (patch)
tree24156c85ddd38319ab92ae56a5c585c0f2e273cc /arch/x86/kernel/cpu
parentb01cd5ac43b00c49759c126c21e7d22c7e80b245 (diff)
dm mpath: add missing path switching locking
Moving the path activation to workqueue along with scsi_dh patches introduced a race. It is due to the fact that the current_pgpath (in the multipath data structure) can be modified if changes happen in any of the paths leading to the lun. If the changes lead to current_pgpath being set to NULL, then it leads to the invalid access which results in the panic below. This patch fixes that by storing the pgpath to activate in the multipath data structure and properly protecting it. Note that if activate_path is called twice in succession with different pgpath, with the second one being called before the first one is done, then activate path will be called twice for the second pgpath, which is fine. Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000020 Faulting instruction address: 0xd000000000aa1844 cpu 0x1: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c00000006b987a80] pc: d000000000aa1844: .activate_path+0x30/0x218 [dm_multipath] lr: c000000000087a2c: .run_workqueue+0x114/0x204 sp: c00000006b987d00 msr: 8000000000009032 dar: 20 dsisr: 40000000 current = 0xc0000000676bb3f0 paca = 0xc0000000006f3680 pid = 2528, comm = kmpath_handlerd enter ? for help [c00000006b987da0] c000000000087a2c .run_workqueue+0x114/0x204 [c00000006b987e40] c000000000088b58 .worker_thread+0x120/0x144 [c00000006b987f00] c00000000008ca70 .kthread+0x78/0xc4 [c00000006b987f90] c000000000027cc8 .kernel_thread+0x4c/0x68 Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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