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<title>target/iscsi: Fix iSCSI task reassignment handling</title>
<updated>2017-11-18T10:06:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
<email>bart.vanassche@sandisk.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-05T11:39:57+00:00</published>
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commit 59b6986dbfcdab96a971f9663221849de79a7556 upstream.

Allocate a task management request structure for all task management
requests, including task reassignment. This change avoids that the
se_tmr-&gt;response assignment dereferences an uninitialized se_tmr
pointer.

Reported-by: Moshe David &lt;mdavid@infinidat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Moshe David &lt;mdavid@infinidat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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commit 59b6986dbfcdab96a971f9663221849de79a7556 upstream.

Allocate a task management request structure for all task management
requests, including task reassignment. This change avoids that the
se_tmr-&gt;response assignment dereferences an uninitialized se_tmr
pointer.

Reported-by: Moshe David &lt;mdavid@infinidat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Moshe David &lt;mdavid@infinidat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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<entry>
<title>target: Avoid mappedlun symlink creation during lun shutdown</title>
<updated>2017-08-11T16:30:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Bellinger</name>
<email>nab@linux-iscsi.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-27T23:12:43+00:00</published>
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commit 49cb77e297dc611a1b795cfeb79452b3002bd331 upstream.

This patch closes a race between se_lun deletion during configfs
unlink in target_fabric_port_unlink() -&gt; core_dev_del_lun()
-&gt; core_tpg_remove_lun(), when transport_clear_lun_ref() blocks
waiting for percpu_ref RCU grace period to finish, but a new
NodeACL mappedlun is added before the RCU grace period has
completed.

This can happen in target_fabric_mappedlun_link() because it
only checks for se_lun-&gt;lun_se_dev, which is not cleared until
after transport_clear_lun_ref() percpu_ref RCU grace period
finishes.

This bug originally manifested as NULL pointer dereference
OOPsen in target_stat_scsi_att_intr_port_show_attr_dev() on
v4.1.y code, because it dereferences lun-&gt;lun_se_dev without
a explicit NULL pointer check.

In post v4.1 code with target-core RCU conversion, the code
in target_stat_scsi_att_intr_port_show_attr_dev() no longer
uses se_lun-&gt;lun_se_dev, but the same race still exists.

To address the bug, go ahead and set se_lun&gt;lun_shutdown as
early as possible in core_tpg_remove_lun(), and ensure new
NodeACL mappedlun creation in target_fabric_mappedlun_link()
fails during se_lun shutdown.

Reported-by: James Shen &lt;jcs@datera.io&gt;
Cc: James Shen &lt;jcs@datera.io&gt;
Tested-by: James Shen &lt;jcs@datera.io&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 49cb77e297dc611a1b795cfeb79452b3002bd331 upstream.

This patch closes a race between se_lun deletion during configfs
unlink in target_fabric_port_unlink() -&gt; core_dev_del_lun()
-&gt; core_tpg_remove_lun(), when transport_clear_lun_ref() blocks
waiting for percpu_ref RCU grace period to finish, but a new
NodeACL mappedlun is added before the RCU grace period has
completed.

This can happen in target_fabric_mappedlun_link() because it
only checks for se_lun-&gt;lun_se_dev, which is not cleared until
after transport_clear_lun_ref() percpu_ref RCU grace period
finishes.

This bug originally manifested as NULL pointer dereference
OOPsen in target_stat_scsi_att_intr_port_show_attr_dev() on
v4.1.y code, because it dereferences lun-&gt;lun_se_dev without
a explicit NULL pointer check.

In post v4.1 code with target-core RCU conversion, the code
in target_stat_scsi_att_intr_port_show_attr_dev() no longer
uses se_lun-&gt;lun_se_dev, but the same race still exists.

To address the bug, go ahead and set se_lun&gt;lun_shutdown as
early as possible in core_tpg_remove_lun(), and ensure new
NodeACL mappedlun creation in target_fabric_mappedlun_link()
fails during se_lun shutdown.

Reported-by: James Shen &lt;jcs@datera.io&gt;
Cc: James Shen &lt;jcs@datera.io&gt;
Tested-by: James Shen &lt;jcs@datera.io&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>target: Fix remote-port TMR ABORT + se_cmd fabric stop</title>
<updated>2016-03-06T03:13:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Bellinger</name>
<email>nab@linux-iscsi.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-06T01:40:00+00:00</published>
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commit 0f4a943168f31d29a1701908931acaba518b131a upstream.

To address the bug where fabric driver level shutdown
of se_cmd occurs at the same time when TMR CMD_T_ABORTED
is happening resulting in a -1 -&gt;cmd_kref, this patch
adds a CMD_T_FABRIC_STOP bit that is used to determine
when TMR + driver I_T nexus shutdown is happening
concurrently.

It changes target_sess_cmd_list_set_waiting() to obtain
se_cmd-&gt;cmd_kref + set CMD_T_FABRIC_STOP, and drop local
reference in target_wait_for_sess_cmds() and invoke extra
target_put_sess_cmd() during Task Aborted Status (TAS)
when necessary.

Also, it adds a new target_wait_free_cmd() wrapper around
transport_wait_for_tasks() for the special case within
transport_generic_free_cmd() to set CMD_T_FABRIC_STOP,
and is now aware of CMD_T_ABORTED + CMD_T_TAS status
bits to know when an extra transport_put_cmd() during
TAS is required.

Note transport_generic_free_cmd() is expected to block on
cmd-&gt;cmd_wait_comp in order to follow what iscsi-target
expects during iscsi_conn context se_cmd shutdown.

Cc: Quinn Tran &lt;quinn.tran@qlogic.com&gt;
Cc: Himanshu Madhani &lt;himanshu.madhani@qlogic.com&gt;
Cc: Sagi Grimberg &lt;sagig@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Grover &lt;agrover@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Christie &lt;mchristi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@daterainc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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commit 0f4a943168f31d29a1701908931acaba518b131a upstream.

To address the bug where fabric driver level shutdown
of se_cmd occurs at the same time when TMR CMD_T_ABORTED
is happening resulting in a -1 -&gt;cmd_kref, this patch
adds a CMD_T_FABRIC_STOP bit that is used to determine
when TMR + driver I_T nexus shutdown is happening
concurrently.

It changes target_sess_cmd_list_set_waiting() to obtain
se_cmd-&gt;cmd_kref + set CMD_T_FABRIC_STOP, and drop local
reference in target_wait_for_sess_cmds() and invoke extra
target_put_sess_cmd() during Task Aborted Status (TAS)
when necessary.

Also, it adds a new target_wait_free_cmd() wrapper around
transport_wait_for_tasks() for the special case within
transport_generic_free_cmd() to set CMD_T_FABRIC_STOP,
and is now aware of CMD_T_ABORTED + CMD_T_TAS status
bits to know when an extra transport_put_cmd() during
TAS is required.

Note transport_generic_free_cmd() is expected to block on
cmd-&gt;cmd_wait_comp in order to follow what iscsi-target
expects during iscsi_conn context se_cmd shutdown.

Cc: Quinn Tran &lt;quinn.tran@qlogic.com&gt;
Cc: Himanshu Madhani &lt;himanshu.madhani@qlogic.com&gt;
Cc: Sagi Grimberg &lt;sagig@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Grover &lt;agrover@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Christie &lt;mchristi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@daterainc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>target: Fix race for SCF_COMPARE_AND_WRITE_POST checking</title>
<updated>2016-03-06T03:13:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Bellinger</name>
<email>nab@linux-iscsi.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-06T01:39:56+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 057085e522f8bf94c2e691a5b76880f68060f8ba ]

This patch addresses a race + use after free where the first
stage of COMPARE_AND_WRITE in compare_and_write_callback()
is rescheduled after the backend sends the secondary WRITE,
resulting in second stage compare_and_write_post() callback
completing in target_complete_ok_work() before the first
can return.

Because current code depends on checking se_cmd-&gt;se_cmd_flags
after return from se_cmd-&gt;transport_complete_callback(),
this results in first stage having SCF_COMPARE_AND_WRITE_POST
set, which incorrectly falls through into second stage CAW
processing code, eventually triggering a NULL pointer
dereference due to use after free.

To address this bug, pass in a new *post_ret parameter into
se_cmd-&gt;transport_complete_callback(), and depend upon this
value instead of -&gt;se_cmd_flags to determine when to return
or fall through into -&gt;queue_status() code for CAW.

Cc: Sagi Grimberg &lt;sagig@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 057085e522f8bf94c2e691a5b76880f68060f8ba ]

This patch addresses a race + use after free where the first
stage of COMPARE_AND_WRITE in compare_and_write_callback()
is rescheduled after the backend sends the secondary WRITE,
resulting in second stage compare_and_write_post() callback
completing in target_complete_ok_work() before the first
can return.

Because current code depends on checking se_cmd-&gt;se_cmd_flags
after return from se_cmd-&gt;transport_complete_callback(),
this results in first stage having SCF_COMPARE_AND_WRITE_POST
set, which incorrectly falls through into second stage CAW
processing code, eventually triggering a NULL pointer
dereference due to use after free.

To address this bug, pass in a new *post_ret parameter into
se_cmd-&gt;transport_complete_callback(), and depend upon this
value instead of -&gt;se_cmd_flags to determine when to return
or fall through into -&gt;queue_status() code for CAW.

Cc: Sagi Grimberg &lt;sagig@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>target: Remove first argument of target_{get,put}_sess_cmd()</title>
<updated>2016-03-02T20:18:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
<email>bart.vanassche@sandisk.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-27T11:52:36+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit afc16604c06414223478df3e42301ab630b9960a ]

The first argument of these two functions is always identical
to se_cmd-&gt;se_sess. Hence remove the first argument.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg &lt;sagig@mellanox.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Grover &lt;agrover@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;qla2xxx-upstream@qlogic.com&gt;
Cc: Felipe Balbi &lt;balbi@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit afc16604c06414223478df3e42301ab630b9960a ]

The first argument of these two functions is always identical
to se_cmd-&gt;se_sess. Hence remove the first argument.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg &lt;sagig@mellanox.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Grover &lt;agrover@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;qla2xxx-upstream@qlogic.com&gt;
Cc: Felipe Balbi &lt;balbi@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>target/iscsi: Fix np_ip bracket issue by removing np_ip</title>
<updated>2015-10-28T02:12:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Grover</name>
<email>agrover@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-24T17:26:03+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 76c28f1fcfeb42b47f798fe498351ee1d60086ae ]

Revert commit 1997e6259, which causes double brackets on ipv6
inaddr_any addresses.

Since we have np_sockaddr, if we need a textual representation we can
use "%pISc".

Change iscsit_add_network_portal() and iscsit_add_np() signatures to remove
*ip_str parameter.

Fix and extend some comments earlier in the function.

Tested to work for :: and ::1 via iscsiadm, previously :: failed, see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249107 .

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andy Grover &lt;agrover@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 76c28f1fcfeb42b47f798fe498351ee1d60086ae ]

Revert commit 1997e6259, which causes double brackets on ipv6
inaddr_any addresses.

Since we have np_sockaddr, if we need a textual representation we can
use "%pISc".

Change iscsit_add_network_portal() and iscsit_add_np() signatures to remove
*ip_str parameter.

Fix and extend some comments earlier in the function.

Tested to work for :: and ::1 via iscsiadm, previously :: failed, see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249107 .

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andy Grover &lt;agrover@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>target: Fix COMPARE_AND_WRITE with SG_TO_MEM_NOALLOC handling</title>
<updated>2015-05-17T23:12:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Bellinger</name>
<email>nab@linux-iscsi.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-07T21:53:27+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c8e639852ad720499912acedfd6b072325fd2807 ]

This patch fixes a bug for COMPARE_AND_WRITE handling with
fabrics using SCF_PASSTHROUGH_SG_TO_MEM_NOALLOC.

It adds the missing allocation for cmd-&gt;t_bidi_data_sg within
transport_generic_new_cmd() that is used by COMPARE_AND_WRITE
for the initial READ payload, even if the fabric is already
providing a pre-allocated buffer for cmd-&gt;t_data_sg.

Also, fix zero-length COMPARE_AND_WRITE handling within the
compare_and_write_callback() and target_complete_ok_work()
to queue the response, skipping the initial READ.

This fixes COMPARE_AND_WRITE emulation with loopback, vhost,
and xen-backend fabric drivers using SG_TO_MEM_NOALLOC.

Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.12+
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit c8e639852ad720499912acedfd6b072325fd2807 ]

This patch fixes a bug for COMPARE_AND_WRITE handling with
fabrics using SCF_PASSTHROUGH_SG_TO_MEM_NOALLOC.

It adds the missing allocation for cmd-&gt;t_bidi_data_sg within
transport_generic_new_cmd() that is used by COMPARE_AND_WRITE
for the initial READ payload, even if the fabric is already
providing a pre-allocated buffer for cmd-&gt;t_data_sg.

Also, fix zero-length COMPARE_AND_WRITE handling within the
compare_and_write_callback() and target_complete_ok_work()
to queue the response, skipping the initial READ.

This fixes COMPARE_AND_WRITE emulation with loopback, vhost,
and xen-backend fabric drivers using SG_TO_MEM_NOALLOC.

Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.12+
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>target: Fix PR_APTPL_BUF_LEN buffer size limitation</title>
<updated>2015-03-14T19:37:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Bellinger</name>
<email>nab@linux-iscsi.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-12T02:34:40+00:00</published>
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commit f161d4b44d7cc1dc66b53365215227db356378b1 upstream.

This patch addresses the original PR_APTPL_BUF_LEN = 8k limitiation
for write-out of PR APTPL metadata that Martin has recently been
running into.

It changes core_scsi3_update_and_write_aptpl() to use vzalloc'ed
memory instead of kzalloc, and increases the default hardcoded
length to 256k.

It also adds logic in core_scsi3_update_and_write_aptpl() to double
the original length upon core_scsi3_update_aptpl_buf() failure, and
retries until the vzalloc'ed buffer is large enough to accommodate
the outgoing APTPL metadata.

Reported-by: Martin Svec &lt;martin.svec@zoner.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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commit f161d4b44d7cc1dc66b53365215227db356378b1 upstream.

This patch addresses the original PR_APTPL_BUF_LEN = 8k limitiation
for write-out of PR APTPL metadata that Martin has recently been
running into.

It changes core_scsi3_update_and_write_aptpl() to use vzalloc'ed
memory instead of kzalloc, and increases the default hardcoded
length to 256k.

It also adds logic in core_scsi3_update_and_write_aptpl() to double
the original length upon core_scsi3_update_aptpl_buf() failure, and
retries until the vzalloc'ed buffer is large enough to accommodate
the outgoing APTPL metadata.

Reported-by: Martin Svec &lt;martin.svec@zoner.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>target: Add force_pr_aptpl device attribute</title>
<updated>2014-10-04T05:41:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Bellinger</name>
<email>nab@linux-iscsi.org</email>
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<published>2014-10-04T01:06:08+00:00</published>
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This patch adds a force_pr_aptpl device attribute used to force SPC-3 PR
Activate Persistence across Target Power Loss (APTPL) operation.  This
makes PR metadata write-out occur during state change regardless if new
PERSISTENT_RESERVE_OUT CDBs have their APTPL feature bit set.

This is useful during H/A failover in active/passive setups where all PR
state is being re-created on a different node, driven by configfs backend
device + export layout and pre-loaded $DEV/pr/res_aptpl_metadata.

Cc: Mike Christie &lt;michaelc@cs.wisc.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
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This patch adds a force_pr_aptpl device attribute used to force SPC-3 PR
Activate Persistence across Target Power Loss (APTPL) operation.  This
makes PR metadata write-out occur during state change regardless if new
PERSISTENT_RESERVE_OUT CDBs have their APTPL feature bit set.

This is useful during H/A failover in active/passive setups where all PR
state is being re-created on a different node, driven by configfs backend
device + export layout and pre-loaded $DEV/pr/res_aptpl_metadata.

Cc: Mike Christie &lt;michaelc@cs.wisc.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>target: encapsulate smp_mb__after_atomic()</title>
<updated>2014-10-01T21:39:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joern Engel</name>
<email>joern@logfs.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-16T20:23:12+00:00</published>
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The target code has a rather generous helping of smp_mb__after_atomic()
throughout the code base.  Most atomic operations were followed by one
and none were preceded by smp_mb__before_atomic(), nor accompanied by a
comment explaining the need for a barrier.

Instead of trying to prove for every case whether or not it is needed,
this patch introduces atomic_inc_mb() and atomic_dec_mb(), which
explicitly include the memory barriers before and after the atomic
operation.  For now they are defined in a target header, although they
could be of general use.

Most of the existing atomic/mb combinations were replaced by the new
helpers.  In a few cases the atomic was sandwiched in
spin_lock/spin_unlock and I simply removed the barrier.

I suspect that in most cases the correct conversion would have been to
drop the barrier.  I also suspect that a few cases exist where a) the
barrier was necessary and b) a second barrier before the atomic would
have been necessary and got added by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel &lt;joern@logfs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
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The target code has a rather generous helping of smp_mb__after_atomic()
throughout the code base.  Most atomic operations were followed by one
and none were preceded by smp_mb__before_atomic(), nor accompanied by a
comment explaining the need for a barrier.

Instead of trying to prove for every case whether or not it is needed,
this patch introduces atomic_inc_mb() and atomic_dec_mb(), which
explicitly include the memory barriers before and after the atomic
operation.  For now they are defined in a target header, although they
could be of general use.

Most of the existing atomic/mb combinations were replaced by the new
helpers.  In a few cases the atomic was sandwiched in
spin_lock/spin_unlock and I simply removed the barrier.

I suspect that in most cases the correct conversion would have been to
drop the barrier.  I also suspect that a few cases exist where a) the
barrier was necessary and b) a second barrier before the atomic would
have been necessary and got added by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel &lt;joern@logfs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
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