nvme-tcp: rerun io_work if req_list is not empty
authorKeith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Mon, 17 May 2021 22:36:43 +0000 (15:36 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 26 May 2021 10:06:49 +0000 (12:06 +0200)
[ Upstream commit a0fdd1418007f83565d3f2e04b47923ba93a9b8c ]

A possible race condition exists where the request to send data is
enqueued from nvme_tcp_handle_r2t()'s will not be observed by
nvme_tcp_send_all() if it happens to be running. The driver relies on
io_work to send the enqueued request when it is runs again, but the
concurrently running nvme_tcp_send_all() may not have released the
send_mutex at that time. If no future commands are enqueued to re-kick
the io_work, the request will timeout in the SEND_H2C state, resulting
in a timeout error like:

  nvme nvme0: queue 1: timeout request 0x3 type 6

Ensure the io_work continues to run as long as the req_list is not empty.

Fixes: db5ad6b7f8cdd ("nvme-tcp: try to send request in queue_rq context")
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c

index 4cf81f3..7346a05 100644 (file)
@@ -1140,7 +1140,8 @@ static void nvme_tcp_io_work(struct work_struct *w)
                                pending = true;
                        else if (unlikely(result < 0))
                                break;
-               }
+               } else
+                       pending = !llist_empty(&queue->req_list);
 
                result = nvme_tcp_try_recv(queue);
                if (result > 0)