linux-kernel - [PATCH -mm] ehca: avoid crash on kthread

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Date:	Mon, 25 Dec 2006 17:12:57 +0900
From:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
To:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@...ibm.com>,
	Christoph Raisch <raisch@...ibm.com>, akpm@...l.org
Subject: [PATCH -mm] ehca: avoid crash on kthread_create() failure

On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 10:22:02PM +0100, Heiko Carstens 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
> > @@ -670,11 +670,13 @@ static int comp_pool_callback(struct not
> >  {
> >  	unsigned int cpu = (unsigned long)hcpu;
> >  	struct ehca_cpu_comp_task *cct;
> > +	struct task_struct *task;
> > 
> >  	switch (action) {
> >  	case CPU_UP_PREPARE:
> >  		ehca_gen_dbg("CPU: %x (CPU_PREPARE)", cpu);
> > -		if(!create_comp_task(pool, cpu)) {
> > +		task = create_comp_task(pool, cpu);
> > +		if (IS_ERR(task)) {
> >  			ehca_gen_err("Can't create comp_task for cpu: %x", cpu);
> >  			return NOTIFY_BAD;
> >  		}
> 
> If this fails then the code will crash on CPU_UP_CANCELED. Because of
> kthread_bind(cct->task,...). cct->task would be just the encoded error
> number.

Subject: [PATCH -mm] ehca: avoid crash on kthread_create() failure

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
@@ -606,13 +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;
 }
@@ -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);
+		}
 		break;
 	case CPU_ONLINE:
 		ehca_gen_dbg("CPU: %x (CPU_ONLINE)", cpu);
-
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