From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754516AbbELWt0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2015 18:49:26 -0400 Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.152]:42571 "EHLO e34.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754456AbbELWtW (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2015 18:49:22 -0400 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mingo@kernel.org, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, josh@joshtriplett.org, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, dvhart@linux.intel.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com, bobby.prani@gmail.com, "Paul E. McKenney" , Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 3/3] rcu: Correctly handle non-empty Tiny RCU callback list with none ready Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 15:49:13 -0700 Message-Id: <1431470953-4910-3-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.5 In-Reply-To: <1431470953-4910-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20150512224855.GA4776@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1431470953-4910-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 15051222-0017-0000-0000-00000ABE524B Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Paul E. McKenney" 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: --- kernel/rcu/tiny.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) 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; -- 1.8.1.5