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Date:	Mon, 25 Dec 2006 10:55:51 +0200
From:	Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@...ibm.com>
To:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
Cc:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@...ibm.com>,
	Christoph Raisch <raisch@...ibm.com>, akpm@...l.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] ehca: avoid crash on kthread_create() failure

On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 05:30:23PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 05:12:57PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> > Index: 2.6-mm/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_irq.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- 2.6-mm.orig/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_irq.c
> > +++ 2.6-mm/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_irq.c
> > @@ -606,13 +606,16 @@ static int comp_task(void *__cct)
> >  static struct task_struct *create_comp_task(struct ehca_comp_pool *pool,
> >  					    int cpu)
> >  {
> > +	struct task_struct *task;
> >  	struct ehca_cpu_comp_task *cct;
> >  
> >  	cct = per_cpu_ptr(pool->cpu_comp_tasks, cpu);
> >  	spin_lock_init(&cct->task_lock);
> >  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cct->cq_list);
> >  	init_waitqueue_head(&cct->wait_queue);
> > -	cct->task = kthread_create(comp_task, cct, "ehca_comp/%d", cpu);
> > +	task = kthread_create(comp_task, cct, "ehca_comp/%d", cpu);
> > +	if (!IS_ERR(task))
> > +		cct->task = task;
> >  
> >  	return cct->task;
> >  }
> 
> This patch is wrong. It changes to make create_comp_task() return NULL
> on failure.
> 
> (BTW, all these ehca fixes are not compile tested due to luck of
> cross comile environment)
> 
> Subject: [PATCH -mm] ehca: avoid crash on kthread_create() failure (v2)
> 
> This patch disallows invalid task_struct pointer returned by
> kthread_create() to be written to percpu data to avoid crash.
> 
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
> Cc: Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@...ibm.com>
> Cc: Christoph Raisch <raisch@...ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
> 
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_irq.c |   11 ++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: 2.6-mm/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_irq.c
> ===================================================================
> --- 2.6-mm.orig/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_irq.c
> +++ 2.6-mm/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_irq.c
> @@ -606,15 +606,18 @@ static int comp_task(void *__cct)
>  static struct task_struct *create_comp_task(struct ehca_comp_pool *pool,
>  					    int cpu)
>  {
> +	struct task_struct *task;
>  	struct ehca_cpu_comp_task *cct;
>  
>  	cct = per_cpu_ptr(pool->cpu_comp_tasks, cpu);
>  	spin_lock_init(&cct->task_lock);
>  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cct->cq_list);
>  	init_waitqueue_head(&cct->wait_queue);
> -	cct->task = kthread_create(comp_task, cct, "ehca_comp/%d", cpu);
> +	task = kthread_create(comp_task, cct, "ehca_comp/%d", cpu);
> +	if (!IS_ERR(task))
> +		cct->task = task;
>  
> -	return cct->task;
> +	return task;
>  }
>  
>  static void destroy_comp_task(struct ehca_comp_pool *pool,
> @@ -684,8 +687,10 @@ static int comp_pool_callback(struct not
>  	case CPU_UP_CANCELED:
>  		ehca_gen_dbg("CPU: %x (CPU_CANCELED)", cpu);
>  		cct = per_cpu_ptr(pool->cpu_comp_tasks, cpu);
> -		kthread_bind(cct->task, any_online_cpu(cpu_online_map));
> -		destroy_comp_task(pool, cpu);
> +		if (cct->task) {
> +			kthread_bind(cct->task, any_online_cpu(cpu_online_map));
> +			destroy_comp_task(pool, cpu);
> +		}

This is correct because cct is allocated via alloc_percpu, which in
turn calls kzalloc, which means cct->task is NULL by default, but it's
a little too obscure for me. How about making it explicit?

task = kthread_create(...)
if (!IS_ERR(task))
   cct->task = task;
else
  cct->task = NULL;

return cct->task;

Cheers,
Muli
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