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From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
To: Chaohai Chen <wdhh6@aliyun.com>,
	James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com,
	martin.petersen@oracle.com, dlemoal@kernel.org,
	hch@infradead.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] scsi: core: Fix async_scan race condition with READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2026 08:25:16 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d9c22b4-1b1f-4432-a6ed-eaa2494e4ace@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260304092939.3092102-1-wdhh6@aliyun.com>


On 3/4/26 3:29 AM, Chaohai Chen wrote:
> -	if (!shost->async_scan) {
> +	if (!READ_ONCE(shost->async_scan)) {

Yikes. I'm not aware of any other kernel code that uses READ_ONCE() /
WRITE_ONCE() to access a member variable protected by a mutex. Please
annotate the async_scan member variable with __guarded_by() and drop the
READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() invocations introduced by this patch.

Bart.

      reply	other threads:[~2026-03-04 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-04  9:29 [PATCH v4] scsi: core: Fix async_scan race condition with READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE Chaohai Chen
2026-03-04 14:25 ` Bart Van Assche [this message]

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