iscsi-target: Fix missed wakeup race in TX thread

The sleeping code in iscsi_target_tx_thread() is susceptible to the classic
missed wakeup race:

 - TX thread finishes handle_immediate_queue() and handle_response_queue(),
   thinks both queues are empty.
 - Another thread adds a queue entry and does wake_up_process(), which does
   nothing because the TX thread is still awake.
 - TX thread does schedule_timeout() and sleeps forever.

In practice this can kill an iSCSI connection if for example an initiator
does single-threaded writes and the target misses the wakeup window when
queueing an R2T; in this case the connection will be stuck until the
initiator loses patience and does some task management operation (or kills
the connection entirely).

Fix this by converting to wait_event_interruptible(), which does not
suffer from this sort of race.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Cc: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.c b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.c
index cdc8a10939c3..f8dbec05d5e5 100644
--- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.c
+++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.c
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 
 static int iscsi_login_init_conn(struct iscsi_conn *conn)
 {
+	init_waitqueue_head(&conn->queues_wq);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&conn->conn_list);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&conn->conn_cmd_list);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&conn->immed_queue_list);