Commit 998866b0 authored by Roland Dreier's avatar Roland Dreier Committed by Nicholas Bellinger

iscsi-target: Fix potential deadlock on lock taken in timer

We need to disable BHs when taking sess_idr_lock because the
iscsit_handle_time2retain_timeout() timer function takes
se_tpg->session_lock, and iscsit_close_session() nests sess_idr_lock
inside se_tpg->session_lock.  So if the timer can run inside
sess_idr_lock, we have a potential AB-BA deadlock.

Fix this by disabling BHs when taking sess_idr_lock.  This was found
because of a lockdep warning, but it looks like a real (if highly
theoretical) deadlock.  In any case avoiding lockdep spew so that we can
find other issues is a worthy cause.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
parent bb7a8c8e
......@@ -254,9 +254,9 @@ static int iscsi_login_zero_tsih_s1(
kfree(sess);
return -ENOMEM;
}
spin_lock(&sess_idr_lock);
spin_lock_bh(&sess_idr_lock);
ret = idr_get_new(&sess_idr, NULL, &sess->session_index);
spin_unlock(&sess_idr_lock);
spin_unlock_bh(&sess_idr_lock);
if (ret < 0) {
pr_err("idr_get_new() for sess_idr failed\n");
......
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