[PATCH 1/2] ibmvscsi: Protect ibmvscsi_head from concurrent modificaiton
Martin K. Petersen
martin.petersen at oracle.com
Thu Mar 21 11:13:56 AEDT 2019
Tyrel,
> For each ibmvscsi host created during a probe or destroyed during a
> remove we either add or remove that host to/from the global
> ibmvscsi_head list. This runs the risk of concurrent modification.
>
> This patch adds a simple spinlock around the list modification calls
> to prevent concurrent updates as is done similarly in the ibmvfc
> driver and ipr driver.
Applied to 5.1/scsi-fixes.
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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
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