nvmet_fc: prevent new io rqsts in possible isr completions
When a bio completion calls back into the transport for a back-end io device, the request completion path can free the transport io job structure allowing it to be reused for other operations. The transport has a defer_rcv queue which holds temporary cmd rcv ops while waitng for io job structures. when the job frees, if there's a cmd waiting, it is picked up and submitted for processing, which can call back out to the bio path if it's a read. Unfortunately, what is unknown is the context of the original bio done call, and it may be in a state (softirq) that is not compatible with submitting the new bio in the same calling sequence. This is especially true when using scsi back-end devices as scsi is in softirq when it makes the done call. Correct by scheduling the io to be started via workq rather than calling the start new io path inline to the original bio done path. Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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