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H A Dcm.c093108cb Fri May 06 11:48:09 CDT 2016 Hariprasad S <hariprasad@chelsio.com> RDMA/iw_cxgb4: Always wake up waiter in c4iw_peer_abort_intr()

Currently c4iw_peer_abort_intr() does not wake up the waiter if the
endpoint state indicates we're using MPAv2 and we're currently trying to
connect. This was introduced with commit 7c0a33d61187a ("RDMA/cxgb4:
Don't wakeup threads for MPAv2")

However, this original fix is flawed because it introduces a race that
can cause a deadlock of the iwarp stack. Here is the race:

->local side sets up an active offload connection.

->local side sends MPA_START request.

->peer sends MPA_START response.

->local side ingress cpl thread begins processing the MPA_START response,
but before it changes the state from MPA_REQ_SENT to FPDU_MODE:

->peer sends a RST which results in a ABORT_REQ_RSS. This triggers
peer_abort_intr() which sees the state in MPA_REQ_SENT and since mpa_rev
is 2, it will avoid waking up the endpoint with -ECONNRESET, assuming the
stack will re-attempt the connection using MPAv1.

->Meanwhile, the cpl thread moves the state to FPDU_MODE and calls
c4iw_modify_rc_qp() which calls rdma_init() which sends a RI_WR/INIT WR
to firmware. But since HW sent an abort, FW correctly drops the RI_WR/INIT
WR.

->So the cpl thread is stuck waiting for a reply and cannot process the
ABORT_REQ_RSS cpl sitting in its input queue. Thus everything comes to a
halt because no more ingress cpls are processed by the stack...

The correct fix for the issue is to always do the wake up in
c4iw_abort_intr() but reinitialize the wait object in c4iw_reconnect().

Fixes: 7c0a33d61187a ("RDMA/cxgb4: Don't wakeup threads for MPAv2")
Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Shenai <hariprasad@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>