From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
To: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
kernel test robot <yi1.lai@intel.com>,
Bradley Morgan <brads@mainlining.org>,
Boqun Feng <boqun@kernel.org>,
rcu@vger.kernel.org, lkmm@lists.linux.dev
Subject: [PATCH] hazptr: handle NULL address in hazptr_detach
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 11:22:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260908152228.4154-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> (raw)
When hazptr_acquire loads a NULL pointer, it sets:
- slot_item->slot.addr = NULL,
- slot_item->ctx.ctx = ctx
- ctx->slot = slot
And it returns NULL.
Then hazptr_detach is called on this ctx, it will act on the ctx as if
needed to be promoted to backup slot, even though it has a NULL addr.
Looking at what hazptr_note_context_switch() does before promoting
to backup slot, it checks for a NULL slot->addr, which is exactly
what is missing from hazptr_detach.
With this in place there would be no need to explicitly check the
hazptr_acquire() return value before calling hazptr_detach().
hazptr_release() has a early return check for NULL addr as well, so it
makes sense that detach does an early return (no-op) similarly.
Fixes: 6357ec235c59 ("hazptrtorture: Fix hazptr ownership issue")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <yi1.lai@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202608130915.62b53936-lkp@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Bradley Morgan <brads@mainlining.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun@kernel.org>
Cc: Bradley Morgan <brads@mainlining.org>
Cc: <rcu@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <lkmm@lists.linux.dev>
---
include/linux/hazptr.h | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/hazptr.h b/include/linux/hazptr.h
index 43122c5673bd..d1670121947a 100644
--- a/include/linux/hazptr.h
+++ b/include/linux/hazptr.h
@@ -160,10 +160,12 @@ void hazptr_detach(struct hazptr_ctx *ctx)
struct hazptr_slot *slot;
guard(preempt)();
+ slot = ctx->slot;
+ if (!slot->addr)
+ return;
#ifdef CONFIG_HAZPTR_DEBUG
ctx->detach_task = ctx->detach_cpu = true;
#endif
- slot = ctx->slot;
if (unlikely(hazptr_slot_is_backup(ctx, slot)))
return;
hazptr_promote_to_backup_slot(ctx, slot);
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-08 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-08 15:22 Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2026-09-08 15:24 ` Bradley Morgan
2026-09-08 15:29 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-09-08 15:52 ` Bradley Morgan
2026-09-08 16:22 ` Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-08 16:31 ` Bradley Morgan
2026-09-08 16:53 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-09-10 3:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-10 2:16 ` kernel test robot
2026-09-10 3:11 ` Paul E. McKenney
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