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Re: [PATCH 2/3] scsi: hisi_sas: lock sensitive regions when servicing CQ interrupt

From zhangfei <zhangfei.gao@linaro.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 2/3] scsi: hisi_sas: lock sensitive regions when servicing CQ interrupt
Date 2017-01-04 02:30 +0100
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On 2017年01月03日 20:24, John Garry wrote:
> There is a bug in the current driver in that certain hisi_hba
> and port structure elements which we access when servicing
> the CQ interrupt do not use thread-safe accesses; these include
> hisi_sas_port linked-list of active slots (hisi_sas_port.entry),
> bitmap of currently allocated IPTT (in hisi_hba.slot_index_tags),
> and completion queue read pointer.
>
> As a solution, lock these elements with the hisi_hba.lock.
>
> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
> Reviewed-by: Xiang Chen <chenxiang66@hisilicon.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@linaro.org>

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[PATCH 2/3] scsi: hisi_sas: lock sensitive regions when servicing CQ interrupt John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> - 2017-01-03 13:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 2/3] scsi: hisi_sas: lock sensitive regions when servicing  CQ interrupt zhangfei <zhangfei.gao@linaro.org> - 2017-01-04 02:30 +0100

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