[PATCH 4.19 104/125] nvme-multipath: fix possible io hang after ctrl reconnect

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Nov 11 2019 - 13:45:54 EST


From: Anton Eidelman <anton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit af8fd0424713a2adb812d10d55e86718152cf656 ]

The following scenario results in an IO hang:
1) ctrl completes a request with NVME_SC_ANA_TRANSITION.
NVME_NS_ANA_PENDING bit in ns->flags is set and ana_work is triggered.
2) ana_work: nvme_read_ana_log() tries to get the ANA log page from the ctrl.
This fails because ctrl disconnects.
Therefore nvme_update_ns_ana_state() is not called
and NVME_NS_ANA_PENDING bit in ns->flags is not cleared.
3) ctrl reconnects: nvme_mpath_init(ctrl,...) calls
nvme_read_ana_log(ctrl, groups_only=true).
However, nvme_update_ana_state() does not update namespaces
because nr_nsids = 0 (due to groups_only mode).
4) scan_work calls nvme_validate_ns() finds the ns and re-validates OK.

Result:
The ctrl is now live but NVME_NS_ANA_PENDING bit in ns->flags is still set.
Consequently ctrl will never be considered a viable path by __nvme_find_path().
IO will hang if ctrl is the only or the last path to the namespace.

More generally, while ctrl is reconnecting, its ANA state may change.
And because nvme_mpath_init() requests ANA log in groups_only mode,
these changes are not propagated to the existing ctrl namespaces.
This may result in a mal-function or an IO hang.

Solution:
nvme_mpath_init() will nvme_read_ana_log() with groups_only set to false.
This will not harm the new ctrl case (no namespaces present),
and will make sure the ANA state of namespaces gets updated after reconnect.

Note: Another option would be for nvme_mpath_init() to invoke
nvme_parse_ana_log(..., nvme_set_ns_ana_state) for each existing namespace.

Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Anton Eidelman <anton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c b/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
index 892ef52122329..838ee58d80cda 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
@@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ int nvme_mpath_init(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, struct nvme_id_ctrl *id)
goto out;
}

- error = nvme_read_ana_log(ctrl, true);
+ error = nvme_read_ana_log(ctrl, false);
if (error)
goto out_free_ana_log_buf;
return 0;
--
2.20.1