nvme-tcp: Fix possible race of io_work and direct send
We may send a request (with or without its data) from two paths: 1. From our I/O context nvme_tcp_io_work which is triggered from: - queue_rq - r2t reception - socket data_ready and write_space callbacks 2. Directly from queue_rq if the send_list is empty (because we want to save the context switch associated with scheduling our io_work). However, given that now we have the send_mutex, we may run into a race condition where none of these contexts will send the pending payload to the controller. Both io_work send path and queue_rq send path opportunistically attempt to acquire the send_mutex however queue_rq only attempts to send a single request, and if io_work context fails to acquire the send_mutex it will complete without rescheduling itself. The race can trigger with the following sequence: 1. queue_rq sends request (no incapsule data) and blocks 2. RX path receives r2t - prepares data PDU to send, adds h2cdata PDU to the send_list and schedules io_work 3. io_work triggers and cannot acquire the send_mutex - because of (1), ends without self rescheduling 4. queue_rq completes the send, and completes ==> no context will send the h2cdata - timeout. Fix this by having queue_rq sending as much as it can from the send_list such that if it still has any left, its because the socket buffer is full and the socket write_space callback will trigger, thus guaranteeing that a context will be scheduled to send the h2cdata PDU. Fixes: db5ad6b7 ("nvme-tcp: try to send request in queue_rq context") Reported-by: Potnuri Bharat Teja <bharat@chelsio.com> Reported-by: Samuel Jones <sjones@kalrayinc.com> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Tested-by: Potnuri Bharat Teja <bharat@chelsio.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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