dmaengine: idxd: fix submission race window
Konstantin observed that when descriptors are submitted, the descriptor is added to the pending list after the submission. This creates a race window with the slight possibility that the descriptor can complete before it gets added to the pending list and this window would cause the completion handler to miss processing the descriptor. To address the issue, the addition of the descriptor to the pending list must be done before it gets submitted to the hardware. However, submitting to swq with ENQCMDS instruction can cause a failure with the condition of either wq is full or wq is not "active". With the descriptor allocation being the gate to the wq capacity, it is not possible to hit a retry with ENQCMDS submission to the swq. The only possible failure can happen is when wq is no longer "active" due to hw error and therefore we are moving towards taking down the portal. Given this is a rare condition and there's no longer concern over I/O performance, the driver can walk the completion lists in order to retrieve and abort the descriptor. The error path will set the descriptor to aborted status. It will take the work list lock to prevent further processing of worklist. It will do a delete_all on the pending llist to retrieve all descriptors on the pending llist. The delete_all action does not require a lock. It will walk through the acquired llist to find the aborted descriptor while add all remaining descriptors to the work list since it holds the lock. If it does not find the aborted descriptor on the llist, it will walk through the work list. And if it still does not find the descriptor, then it means the interrupt handler has removed the desc from the llist but is pending on the work list lock and will process it once the error path releases the lock. Fixes: eb15e715 ("dmaengine: idxd: add interrupt handle request and release support") Reported-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/162628855747.360485.10101925573082466530.stgit@djiang5-desk3.ch.intel.comSigned-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
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