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From: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@gmail.com>
To: jiangshanlai@gmail.com, paulmck@kernel.org,
	josh@joshtriplett.org, work@onurozkan.dev, frederic@kernel.org,
	neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org, joelagnelf@nvidia.com,
	boqun@kernel.org, urezki@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
	qiang.zhang@linux.dev, rcu@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@gmail.com>,
	Kunwu Chan <chentao@kylinos.cn>
Subject: [PATCH 4/9] srcu: Validate callback arguments
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:18:36 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261023101841.2910719-5-kunwu.chan@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261023101841.2910719-1-kunwu.chan@gmail.com>

Check callback-head alignment and reject NULL callback
functions in the SRCU callback registration paths.

Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <chentao@kylinos.cn>
---
 kernel/rcu/srcutiny.c | 7 +++++++
 kernel/rcu/srcutree.c | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/srcutiny.c b/kernel/rcu/srcutiny.c
index 3ee28885b96f..98864977bed2 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/srcutiny.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/srcutiny.c
@@ -291,6 +291,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(srcu_defer_drain);
 void call_srcu(struct srcu_struct *ssp, struct rcu_head *rhp,
 	       rcu_callback_t func)
 {
+	/* Misaligned rcu_head! */
+	WARN_ON_ONCE((unsigned long)rhp & (sizeof(void *) - 1));
+
+	/* Avoid NULL dereference if callback is NULL. */
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!func))
+		return;
+
 	/* Record the caller: the irq_work's stack says nothing about it. */
 	kasan_record_aux_stack(rhp);
 
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
index 46fe2f0cef85..1993ddbdb828 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
@@ -1529,6 +1529,13 @@ static void srcu_do_enqueue(struct srcu_struct *ssp, struct rcu_head *rhp,
 static void __call_srcu(struct srcu_struct *ssp, struct rcu_head *rhp,
 			rcu_callback_t func, bool do_norm)
 {
+	/* Misaligned rcu_head! */
+	WARN_ON_ONCE((unsigned long)rhp & (sizeof(void *) - 1));
+
+	/* Avoid NULL dereference if callback is NULL. */
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!func))
+		return;
+
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ssp->srcu_reader_flavor == SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_ATOMIC))
 		return; // Leak the callback rather than corrupt SRCU state.
 
-- 
2.43.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-23 10:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-23 10:18 [PATCH 0/9] rcu: Improve callback diagnostics and validation Kunwu Chan
2026-10-23 10:18 ` [PATCH 1/9] srcu: Record callback registration stack for KASAN Kunwu Chan
2026-10-23 10:18 ` [PATCH 2/9] srcutiny: " Kunwu Chan
2026-10-23 10:18 ` [PATCH 3/9] rcu: Record callback registration stack for Tiny RCU Kunwu Chan
2026-10-23 10:18 ` Kunwu Chan [this message]
2026-10-23 10:18 ` [PATCH 5/9] rcu: Validate callback arguments in " Kunwu Chan
2026-10-23 10:18 ` [PATCH 6/9] rcu-tasks: Validate callback arguments Kunwu Chan
2026-10-23 10:18 ` [PATCH 7/9] srcu: Detect duplicate callback enqueue at registration Kunwu Chan
2026-10-23 10:18 ` [PATCH 8/9] srcutiny: Detect duplicate callback enqueue Kunwu Chan
2026-10-23 10:18 ` [PATCH 9/9] rcu-tasks: " Kunwu Chan

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