From 60f53782c51f27c695840ce90c6c432284319eef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:27:40 -0700 Subject: rcu: Prevent initialization race in rcutorture kthreads When you do something like "t = kthread_run(...)", it is possible that the kthread will start running before the assignment to "t" happens. If the child kthread expects to find a pointer to its task_struct in "t", it will then be fatally disappointed. This commit therefore switches such cases to kthread_create() followed by wake_up_process(), guaranteeing that the assignment happens before the child kthread starts running. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney diff --git a/kernel/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcutorture.c index 61be03b..aaa7b9f 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutorture.c +++ b/kernel/rcutorture.c @@ -2029,14 +2029,15 @@ rcu_torture_init(void) /* Start up the kthreads. */ VERBOSE_PRINTK_STRING("Creating rcu_torture_writer task"); - writer_task = kthread_run(rcu_torture_writer, NULL, - "rcu_torture_writer"); + writer_task = kthread_create(rcu_torture_writer, NULL, + "rcu_torture_writer"); if (IS_ERR(writer_task)) { firsterr = PTR_ERR(writer_task); VERBOSE_PRINTK_ERRSTRING("Failed to create writer"); writer_task = NULL; goto unwind; } + wake_up_process(writer_task); fakewriter_tasks = kzalloc(nfakewriters * sizeof(fakewriter_tasks[0]), GFP_KERNEL); if (fakewriter_tasks == NULL) { @@ -2151,14 +2152,15 @@ rcu_torture_init(void) } if (shutdown_secs > 0) { shutdown_time = jiffies + shutdown_secs * HZ; - shutdown_task = kthread_run(rcu_torture_shutdown, NULL, - "rcu_torture_shutdown"); + shutdown_task = kthread_create(rcu_torture_shutdown, NULL, + "rcu_torture_shutdown"); if (IS_ERR(shutdown_task)) { firsterr = PTR_ERR(shutdown_task); VERBOSE_PRINTK_ERRSTRING("Failed to create shutdown"); shutdown_task = NULL; goto unwind; } + wake_up_process(shutdown_task); } i = rcu_torture_onoff_init(); if (i != 0) { -- cgit v0.10.2