From: Paul E. McKenney Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 18:13:05 +0000 (-0700) Subject: rcu: Correctly handle non-empty Tiny RCU callback list with none ready X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6e91f8cb138625be96070b778d9ba71ce520ea7e;p=linux-beck.git rcu: Correctly handle non-empty Tiny RCU callback list with none ready If, at the time __rcu_process_callbacks() is invoked, there are callbacks in Tiny RCU's callback list, but none of them are ready to be invoked, the current list-management code will knit the non-ready callbacks out of the list. This can result in hangs and possibly worse. This commit therefore inserts a check for there being no callbacks that can be invoked immediately. This bug is unlikely to occur -- you have to get a new callback between the time rcu_sched_qs() or rcu_bh_qs() was called, but before we get to __rcu_process_callbacks(). It was detected by the addition of RCU-bh testing to rcutorture, which in turn was instigated by Iftekhar Ahmed's mutation testing. Although this bug was made much more likely by 915e8a4fe45e (rcu: Remove fastpath from __rcu_process_callbacks()), this did not cause the bug, but rather made it much more probable. That said, it takes more than 40 hours of rcutorture testing, on average, for this bug to appear, so this fix cannot be considered an emergency. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett --- diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tiny.c b/kernel/rcu/tiny.c index a501b4ab9b1c..591af0cb7b9f 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tiny.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/tiny.c @@ -137,6 +137,11 @@ static void __rcu_process_callbacks(struct rcu_ctrlblk *rcp) /* Move the ready-to-invoke callbacks to a local list. */ local_irq_save(flags); + if (rcp->donetail == &rcp->rcucblist) { + /* No callbacks ready, so just leave. */ + local_irq_restore(flags); + return; + } RCU_TRACE(trace_rcu_batch_start(rcp->name, 0, rcp->qlen, -1)); list = rcp->rcucblist; rcp->rcucblist = *rcp->donetail;