Re: kernel BUG at drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c:197! - git 4.17.0-x64-08428-g7d3bf613e99a

Bart Van Assche
2018-06-13T14:08:39Z

On Wed, 2018-06-13 at 16:04 +0200, hch@lst.de wrote:
> > I suspect this is due to we could expire a same request twice or even more.
> > For scsi mid-layer, it return BLK_EH_DONE from .timeout, in fact, the request is not
> > completed there, but just queue a delayed abort_work (HZ/100). If the blk_mq_timeout_work
> > runs again before the abort_work, the request will be timed out again, because there is not
> > any mark on it to identify this request has been timed out.
> >
> > Would please try the patch attached on to see whether this issue could be fixed ?
> > (this patch only works for scsi device currently)
>
> The patch isn't really going to work without a caller of your new
> __blk_mq_complete_request helper, is it?

__blk_mq_complete_request() is already called today by blk_mq_complete_request().
However, it's not clear to me why that function is exported by Jianchao's patch.

> Either way the concept of doing error handling without quiescing the
> queue just looks bogus to me and will end up with some sort of race
> here or there.

The SCSI error handler already waits until all pending requests have finished
before it starts handling timed out commands. This e-mail thread started with a
report of a crash in the SCSI error handler, which is a regression introduced in
the v4.18 merge window.

Bart.