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s390/cio: fix invalid -EBUSY on ccw_device_start

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The s390 common I/O layer (CIO) returns an unexpected -EBUSY return code
when drivers try to start I/O while a path-verification (PV) process is
pending. This can lead to failed device initialization attempts with
symptoms like broken network connectivity after boot.

Fix this by replacing the -EBUSY return code with a deferred condition
code 1 reply to make path-verification handling consistent from a
driver's point of view.

The problem can be reproduced semi-regularly using the following process,
while repeating steps 2-3 as necessary (example assumes an OSA device
with bus-IDs 0.0.a000-0.0.a002 on CHPID 0.02):

1. echo 0.0.a000,0.0.a001,0.0.a002 >/sys/bus/ccwgroup/drivers/qeth/group
2. echo 0 > /sys/bus/ccwgroup/devices/0.0.a000/online
3. echo 1 > /sys/bus/ccwgroup/devices/0.0.a000/online ; \
   echo on > /sys/devices/css0/chp0.02/status

Background information:

The common I/O layer starts path-verification I/Os when it receives
indications about changes in a device path's availability. This occurs
for example when hardware events indicate a change in channel-path
status, or when a manual operation such as a CHPID vary or configure
operation is performed.

If a driver attempts to start I/O while a PV is running, CIO reports a
successful I/O start (ccw_device_start() return code 0). Then, after
completion of PV, CIO synthesizes an interrupt response that indicates
an asynchronous status condition that prevented the start of the I/O
(deferred condition code 1).

If a PV indication arrives while a device is busy with driver-owned I/O,
PV is delayed until after I/O completion was reported to the driver's
interrupt handler. To ensure that PV can be started eventually, CIO
reports a device busy condition (ccw_device_start() return code -EBUSY)
if a driver tries to start another I/O while PV is pending.

In some cases this -EBUSY return code causes device drivers to consider
a device not operational, resulting in failed device initialization.

Note: The code that introduced the problem was added in 2003. Symptoms
started appearing with the following CIO commit that causes a PV
indication when a device is removed from the cio_ignore list after the
associated parent subchannel device was probed, but before online
processing of the CCW device has started:

2297791c92 ("s390/cio: dont unregister subchannel from child-drivers")

During boot, the cio_ignore list is modified by the cio_ignore dracut
module [1] as well as Linux vendor-specific systemd service scripts[2].
When combined, this commit and boot scripts cause a frequent occurrence
of the problem during boot.

[1] https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/tree/master/modules.d/81cio_ignore
[2] https://github.com/SUSE/s390-tools/blob/master/cio_ignore.service

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.15+
Fixes: 2297791c92 ("s390/cio: dont unregister subchannel from child-drivers")
Tested-By: Thorsten Winkler <twinkler@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Thorsten Winkler <twinkler@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
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Peter Oberparleiter 2024-02-14 16:06:28 +01:00 committed by Heiko Carstens
parent 723a2cc8d6
commit 5ef1dc40ff
1 changed files with 3 additions and 3 deletions
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drivers/s390/cio/device_ops.c
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@ -202,7 +202,8 @@ int ccw_device_start_timeout_key(struct ccw_device *cdev, struct ccw1 *cpa,
return -EINVAL;
if (cdev->private->state == DEV_STATE_NOT_OPER)
return -ENODEV;
if (cdev->private->state == DEV_STATE_VERIFY) {
if (cdev->private->state == DEV_STATE_VERIFY ||
cdev->private->flags.doverify) {
/* Remember to fake irb when finished. */
if (!cdev->private->flags.fake_irb) {
cdev->private->flags.fake_irb = FAKE_CMD_IRB;
@ -214,8 +215,7 @@ int ccw_device_start_timeout_key(struct ccw_device *cdev, struct ccw1 *cpa,
}
if (cdev->private->state != DEV_STATE_ONLINE ||
((sch->schib.scsw.cmd.stctl & SCSW_STCTL_PRIM_STATUS) &&
!(sch->schib.scsw.cmd.stctl & SCSW_STCTL_SEC_STATUS)) ||
cdev->private->flags.doverify)
!(sch->schib.scsw.cmd.stctl & SCSW_STCTL_SEC_STATUS)))
return -EBUSY;
ret = cio_set_options (sch, flags);
if (ret)