scsi: ibmvfc: Remove BUG_ON in the case of an empty event pool

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In practice the driver should never send more commands than are allocated
to a queue's event pool. In the unlikely event that this happens, the code
asserts a BUG_ON, and in the case that the kernel is not configured to
crash on panic returns a junk event pointer from the empty event list
causing things to spiral from there. This BUG_ON is a historical artifact
of the ibmvfc driver first being upstreamed, and it is well known now that
the use of BUG_ON is bad practice except in the most unrecoverable
scenario. There is nothing about this scenario that prevents the driver
from recovering and carrying on.

Remove the BUG_ON in question from ibmvfc_get_event() and return a NULL
pointer in the case of an empty event pool. Update all call sites to
ibmvfc_get_event() to check for a NULL pointer and perfrom the appropriate
failure or recovery action.

Signed-off-by: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230921225435.3537728-2-tyreld@linux.ibm.com
Reviewed-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

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Tyrel Datwyler 2023-09-21 17:54:25 -05:00 • committed by Martin K. Petersen

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