linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] async: replace list of active domains with global list of pending items

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Message-ID: <20130125001345.GA1960@balrog>
Date:	Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:13:45 +0000
From:	James Hogan <james@...anarts.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Dan Williams <djbw@...com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] async: replace list of active domains with global
 list of pending items

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 04:41:00PM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> @@ -125,9 +134,8 @@ static void async_run_entry_fn(struct work_struct *work)
>  
>  	/* 2) remove self from the pending queues */
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&async_lock, flags);
> -	list_del(&entry->list);
> -	if (domain->registered && list_empty(&domain->pending))
> -		list_del_init(&domain->node);
> +	list_del_init(&entry->domain_list);
> +	list_del_init(&entry->global_list);

this unconditionally unlinks the global_list entry, however...

>  
>  	/* 3) free the entry */
>  	kfree(entry);
> @@ -168,10 +176,14 @@ static async_cookie_t __async_schedule(async_func_ptr *ptr, void *data, struct a
>  	entry->domain = domain;
>  
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&async_lock, flags);
> +
> +	/* allocate cookie and queue */
>  	newcookie = entry->cookie = next_cookie++;
> -	if (domain->registered && list_empty(&domain->pending))
> -		list_add_tail(&domain->node, &async_domains);
> -	list_add_tail(&entry->list, &domain->pending);
> +
> +	list_add_tail(&entry->domain_list, &domain->pending);
> +	if (domain->registered)
> +		list_add_tail(&entry->global_list, &async_global_pending);

if (!domain->registered) then entry->global_list will have NULL pointers
from the kzalloc, so the list_del_init above will crash.

Should it have this?
+	else
+		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&entry->global_list)

Cheers
James
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