[SCSI] qla2xxx: Test and clear FCPORT_UPDATE_NEEDED atomically.
When the qla2xxx driver loses access to multiple, remote ports, there is a race condition which can occur which will keep the request stuck on a scsi request queue indefinitely. This bad state occurred do to a race condition with how the FCPORT_UPDATE_NEEDED bit is set in qla2x00_schedule_rport_del(), and how it is cleared in qla2x00_do_dpc(). The problem port has its drport pointer set, but it has never been processed by the driver to inform the fc transport that the port has been lost. qla2x00_schedule_rport_del() sets drport, and then sets the FCPORT_UPDATE_NEEDED bit. In qla2x00_do_dpc(), the port lists are walked and any drport pointer is handled and the fc transport informed of the port loss, then the FCPORT_UPDATE_NEEDED bit is cleared. This leaves a race where the dpc thread is processing one port removal, another port removal is marked with a call to qla2x00_schedule_rport_del(), and the dpc thread clears the bit for both removals, even though only the first removal was actually handled. Until another event occurs to set FCPORT_UPDATE_NEEDED, the later port removal is never finished and qla2xxx stays in a bad state which causes requests to become stuck on request queues. This patch updates the driver to test and clear FCPORT_UPDATE_NEEDED atomically. This ensures the port state changes are processed and not lost. Signed-off-by: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Chad Dupuis <chad.dupuis@qlogic.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Saurav Kashyap <saurav.kashyap@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
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