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-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/cxlflash/superpipe.c15
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/superpipe.c b/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/superpipe.c
index d8a5cb3cd2bd..ce1507023132 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/superpipe.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/superpipe.c
@@ -1615,6 +1615,13 @@ err1:
* place at the same time and the failure was due to CXL services being
* unable to keep up.
*
+ * As this routine is called on ioctl context, it holds the ioctl r/w
+ * semaphore that is used to drain ioctls in recovery scenarios. The
+ * implementation to achieve the pacing described above (a local mutex)
+ * requires that the ioctl r/w semaphore be dropped and reacquired to
+ * avoid a 3-way deadlock when multiple process recoveries operate in
+ * parallel.
+ *
* Because a user can detect an error condition before the kernel, it is
* quite possible for this routine to act as the kernel's EEH detection
* source (MMIO read of mbox_r). Because of this, there is a window of
@@ -1642,9 +1649,17 @@ static int cxlflash_afu_recover(struct scsi_device *sdev,
int rc = 0;
atomic_inc(&cfg->recovery_threads);
+ up_read(&cfg->ioctl_rwsem);
rc = mutex_lock_interruptible(mutex);
+ down_read(&cfg->ioctl_rwsem);
if (rc)
goto out;
+ rc = check_state(cfg);
+ if (rc) {
+ dev_err(dev, "%s: Failed state! rc=%d\n", __func__, rc);
+ rc = -ENODEV;
+ goto out;
+ }
dev_dbg(dev, "%s: reason 0x%016llX rctxid=%016llX\n",
__func__, recover->reason, rctxid);