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While reviewing commit 936e6b85da04 ("scsi: zfcp: Fix panic on ERP timeout
for previously dismissed ERP action"), I stumbled over
zfcp_fsf_req_complete() and wondered whether it has similar issues wrt
concurrent modification of req->erp_action by
zfcp_erp_strategy_check_fsfreq().
But a closer look shows that both its two callers [zfcp_fsf_reqid_check(),
zfcp_fsf_req_dismiss_all()] remove the request from the adapter's req_list
under the req_list's lock. Hence we can trust that if
zfcp_erp_strategy_check_fsfreq() concurrently looks up the corresponding
req_id, it won't find this request and is thus unable to modify it while
it's being processed by zfcp_fsf_req_complete().
Add a code comment that hopefully makes this easier for future readers, and
condense the two accesses to ->erp_action that made me trip over this code
path in the first place.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c500eac301fcbba5af942bbd200f2d6b14e46994.1599765652.git.bblock@linux.ibm.com
Reviewed-by: Steffen Maier <maier@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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