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authorAriel Nahum <arieln@mellanox.com>2014-07-31 06:27:49 -0400
committerRoland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>2014-08-01 18:10:05 -0400
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IB/iser: Protect iser state machine with a mutex
The iser connection state lookups and transitions are not fully protected. Some transitions are protected with a spinlock, and in some cases the state is accessed unprotected due to specific assumptions of the flow. Introduce a new mutex to protect the connection state access. We use a mutex since we need to also include a scheduling operations executed under the state lock. Each state transition/condition and its corresponding action will be protected with the state mutex. The rdma_cm events handler acquires the mutex when handling connection events. Since iser connection state can transition to DOWN concurrently during connection establishment, we bailout from addr/route resolution events when the state is not PENDING. This addresses a scenario where ep_poll retries expire during CMA connection establishment. In this case ep_disconnect is invoked while CMA events keep coming (address/route resolution, connected, etc...). Signed-off-by: Ariel Nahum <arieln@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
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