linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 25/48] rcu: fix debugobjects rcu head init on stack in rcutree

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Message-Id: <1273004398-19760-25-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue,  4 May 2010 13:19:35 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, laijs@...fujitsu.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca,
	josh@...htriplett.org, dvhltc@...ibm.com, niv@...ibm.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, dhowells@...hat.com,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 25/48] rcu: fix debugobjects rcu head init on stack in rcutree_plugin.h

From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>

Testing resulted in the following debugobjects splat
[...]
ODEBUG: object is on stack, but not annotated
------------[ cut here ]------------
Badness at lib/debugobjects.c:294
NIP: c0000000002c76f0 LR: c0000000002c76ec CTR: c00000000041ecd8
REGS: c0000001de71b280 TRAP: 0700   Tainted: G        W   (2.6.34-rc3-autokern1)
MSR: 8000000000029032 <EE,ME,CE,IR,DR>  CR: 24000424  XER: 0000000f
TASK = c0000001de7dca00[3695] 'arping' THREAD: c0000001de718000 CPU: 1
GPR00: c0000000002c76ec c0000001de71b500 c00000000096c048 0000000000000034
GPR04: 0000000000000001 c000000000063918 0000000000000000 0000000000000002
GPR08: 0000000000000003 0000000000000000 c000000000086f68 c0000001de7dca00
GPR12: 000000000000256d c0000000074e4200 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000201b8f60
GPR20: 00000000201b8f70 00000000201b8f48 0000000000000000 c0000000008766b8
GPR24: c0000001de71b800 0000000000000001 c0000000008ad400 c000000001247478
GPR28: c0000000e6abb8c0 c0000000e6abb8c0 c000000000904570 c000000001247470
NIP [c0000000002c76f0] .__debug_object_init+0x314/0x40c
LR [c0000000002c76ec] .__debug_object_init+0x310/0x40c
Call Trace:
[c0000001de71b500] [c0000000002c76ec] .__debug_object_init+0x310/0x40c (unreliable)
[c0000001de71b5d0] [c00000000007d990] .rcuhead_fixup_activate+0x40/0xdc
[c0000001de71b660] [c0000000002c6a7c] .debug_object_fixup+0x4c/0x74
[c0000001de71b6f0] [c0000000000c5e54] .__call_rcu+0x3c/0x1d4
[c0000001de71b790] [c0000000000c6050] .synchronize_rcu+0x4c/0x6c
[c0000001de71b870] [c0000000004be218] .synchronize_net+0x10/0x24
[c0000001de71b8e0] [c0000000005498c8] .packet_release+0x1d4/0x274
[c0000001de71b990] [c0000000004ac1f0] .sock_release+0x54/0x124
[c0000001de71ba20] [c0000000004ac9e4] .sock_close+0x34/0x4c
[c0000001de71baa0] [c00000000012469c] .__fput+0x174/0x264
[c0000001de71bb40] [c000000000120c54] .filp_close+0xb0/0xd8
[c0000001de71bbd0] [c000000000065e70] .put_files_struct+0x1a8/0x314
[c0000001de71bc70] [c000000000067e04] .do_exit+0x234/0x6f0
[c0000001de71bd30] [c000000000068354] .do_group_exit+0x94/0xc8
[c0000001de71bdc0] [c00000000006839c] .SyS_exit_group+0x14/0x28
[c0000001de71be30] [c000000000008554] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40
Instruction dump:
7f80b000 419e0030 2fa00000 e93e8140 380b0001 90090000 419e000c e87e8148
48000008 e87e8150 4bd9cb89 60000000 <0fe00000> 801c0010 2f800003 419e0024

The fix is to add init_rcu_head_on_stack() and destroy_rcu_head_on_stack()
to the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementation of synchronize_rcu().

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/rcutree_plugin.h |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
index 0ae2339..5c599e8 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
@@ -557,11 +557,13 @@ void synchronize_rcu(void)
 	if (!rcu_scheduler_active)
 		return;
 
+	init_rcu_head_on_stack(&rcu.head);
 	init_completion(&rcu.completion);
 	/* Will wake me after RCU finished. */
 	call_rcu(&rcu.head, wakeme_after_rcu);
 	/* Wait for it. */
 	wait_for_completion(&rcu.completion);
+	destroy_rcu_head_on_stack(&rcu.head);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(synchronize_rcu);
 
-- 
1.7.0

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