nvme-multipath: fix possible I/O hang when paths are updated

nvme_state_set_live() making a path available triggers requeue_work
in order to resubmit requests that ended up on requeue_list when no
paths were available.

This requeue_work may race with concurrent nvme_ns_head_make_request()
that do not observe the live path yet.
Such concurrent requests may by made by either:
- New IO submission.
- Requeue_work triggered by nvme_failover_req() or another ana_work.

A race may cause requeue_work capture the state of requeue_list before
more requests get onto the list. These requests will stay on the list
forever unless requeue_work is triggered again.

In order to prevent such race, nvme_state_set_live() should
synchronize_srcu(&head->srcu) before triggering the requeue_work and
prevent nvme_ns_head_make_request referencing an old snapshot of the
path list.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anton Eidelman <anton@lightbitslabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c b/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
index 888d4543894e7d74ea9f75a462df1ace4e3b0cec..af831d3d15d072339b20ef297b197bae939b4d55 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
@@ -428,6 +428,7 @@ static void nvme_mpath_set_live(struct nvme_ns *ns)
                srcu_read_unlock(&head->srcu, srcu_idx);
        }
 
+       synchronize_srcu(&ns->head->srcu);
        kblockd_schedule_work(&ns->head->requeue_work);
 }