libata: ignore EH scheduling during initialization

libata enables SCSI host during ATA host activation which happens
after IRQ handler is registered and IRQ is enabled.  All ATA ports are
in frozen state when IRQ is enabled but frozen ports may raise limited
number of IRQs after being frozen - IOW, ->freeze() is not responsible
for clearing pending IRQs.  During normal operation, the IRQ handler
is responsible for clearing spurious IRQs on frozen ports and it
usually doesn't require any extra code.

Unfortunately, during host initialization, the IRQ handler can end up
scheduling EH for a port whose SCSI host isn't initialized yet.  This
results in OOPS in the SCSI midlayer.  This is relatively short window
and scheduling EH for probing is the first thing libata does after
initialization, so ignoring EH scheduling until initialization is
complete solves the problem nicely.

This problem was spotted by Berck E. Nash in the following thread.

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/519412

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Berck E. Nash <flyboy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

3 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
index 9cff5c506573..6ac4f32ddcc2 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
@@ -5964,6 +5964,7 @@ struct ata_port *ata_port_alloc(struct ata_host *host)
         if (!ap)
                 return NULL;
 
+        ap->pflags |= ATA_PFLAG_INITIALIZING;
         ap->lock = &host->lock;
         ap->flags = ATA_FLAG_DISABLED;
         ap->print_id = -1;
@@ -6332,6 +6333,7 @@ int ata_host_register(struct ata_host *host, struct scsi_host_template *sht)
                         ehi->action |= ATA_EH_SOFTRESET;
                         ehi->flags |= ATA_EHI_NO_AUTOPSY | ATA_EHI_QUIET;
 
+                        ap->pflags &= ~ATA_PFLAG_INITIALIZING;
                         ap->pflags |= ATA_PFLAG_LOADING;
                         ata_port_schedule_eh(ap);
 
diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
index 412d6049afa3..ee9bb534153a 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
@@ -551,6 +551,9 @@ void ata_port_schedule_eh(struct ata_port *ap)
 {
         WARN_ON(!ap->ops->error_handler);
 
+        if (ap->pflags & ATA_PFLAG_INITIALIZING)
+                return;
+
         ap->pflags |= ATA_PFLAG_EH_PENDING;
         scsi_schedule_eh(ap->scsi_host);
 
diff --git a/include/linux/libata.h b/include/linux/libata.h
index 95b74ba7dbf4..90abcdc3d4ef 100644
--- a/include/linux/libata.h
+++ b/include/linux/libata.h
@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ enum {
         ATA_PFLAG_LOADING       = (1 << 4), /* boot/loading probe */
         ATA_PFLAG_UNLOADING     = (1 << 5), /* module is unloading */
         ATA_PFLAG_SCSI_HOTPLUG  = (1 << 6), /* SCSI hotplug scheduled */
+        ATA_PFLAG_INITIALIZING  = (1 << 7), /* being initialized, don't touch */
 
         ATA_PFLAG_FLUSH_PORT_TASK = (1 << 16), /* flush port task */
         ATA_PFLAG_SUSPENDED     = (1 << 17), /* port is suspended (power) */