qla2xxx: Fix sess_lock & hardware_lock lock order problem.
The main lock that needs to be held for CMD or TMR submission to upper layer is the sess_lock. The sess_lock is used to serialize cmd submission and session deletion. The addition of hardware_lock being held is not necessary. This patch removes hardware_lock dependency from CMD/TMR submission. Use hardware_lock only for error response in this case. Path1 CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(&(&ha->tgt.sess_lock)->rlock); lock(&(&ha->hardware_lock)->rlock); lock(&(&ha->tgt.sess_lock)->rlock); lock(&(&ha->hardware_lock)->rlock); Path2/deadlock *** DEADLOCK *** Call Trace: dump_stack+0x85/0xc2 print_circular_bug+0x1e3/0x250 __lock_acquire+0x1425/0x1620 lock_acquire+0xbf/0x210 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x53/0x70 qlt_sess_work_fn+0x21d/0x480 [qla2xxx] process_one_work+0x1f4/0x6e0 Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com> Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com> Signed-off-by: Quinn Tran <quinn.tran@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
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