Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] [SCSI] sg: fix race condition when do exclusive open

["Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>]

Sorry about replying so late.

On Mon, 17 June 2013 21:10:53 +0800, vaughan wrote:
> 
> Rewrite the last patch.
> Add a new field 'toopen' in sg_device to count ongoing sg_open's. By checking both 'toopen' and 'exclude' marks when do exclusive open, old race conditions can be avoided.
> Replace global sg_open_exclusive_lock with a per device lock - sfd_lock. Since sfds list is now protected by the lock owned by the same sg_device, sg_index_lock becomes a real global lock to only protect sg devices lookup.
> Also did some cleanup, such as remove get_exclude() and rename set_exclude() to clear_exclude().
> 
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> @@ -171,10 +168,10 @@ typedef struct sg_device { /* holds the state of each scsi generic device */
>  	wait_queue_head_t o_excl_wait;	/* queue open() when O_EXCL in use */
>  	int sg_tablesize;	/* adapter's max scatter-gather table size */
>  	u32 index;		/* device index number */
> -	/* sfds is protected by sg_index_lock */
> +	spinlock_t sfd_lock;	/* protect sfds, exclude, toopen */
>  	struct list_head sfds;
> +	int toopen;		/* number of who are ready to open sg */
                                            ^
I think the 'toopen' is a bad choice.  I'm having trouble wrapping my
head around the semantics of this variable, your description feels a
bit handwavy, the main noun is missing in the command above, I think I
found one more overflow bug,...

What you ended up doing is reimplement a rw_semaphone.  Why not use
one instead?  down_write() for exclusive access, down_read() for
non-exclusive, _trylock variants for nonblocking opens, etc.

Would this work?

Jörn

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